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Two grand opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 companies in Chicago have gone by the name Chicago Grand Opera Company

The first Chicago Grand Opera Company produced four seasons of opera in Chicago’s Auditorium Theater from 1910 to 1913. It was the first resident Chicago opera company.

The second Chicago Grand Opera Company was an attempt to keep opera going in Chicago after the collapse of the Chicago Civic Opera
Chicago Civic Opera

The Civic Opera Company was a Chicago company that produced seven seasons of opera in the Auditorium Building from 1922 to 1928, and three seasons at its own Civic Opera House from 1929 to 1931 before falling victim to financial difficulties brought on in part by the Great Depression....
 in 1932. It produced three seasons of opera at the Civic Opera House from 1933 to 1935 before it too succumbed to financial difficulties.






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Two grand opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 companies in Chicago have gone by the name Chicago Grand Opera Company

The first Chicago Grand Opera Company produced four seasons of opera in Chicago’s Auditorium Theater from 1910 to 1913. It was the first resident Chicago opera company.

The second Chicago Grand Opera Company was an attempt to keep opera going in Chicago after the collapse of the Chicago Civic Opera
Chicago Civic Opera

The Civic Opera Company was a Chicago company that produced seven seasons of opera in the Auditorium Building from 1922 to 1928, and three seasons at its own Civic Opera House from 1929 to 1931 before falling victim to financial difficulties brought on in part by the Great Depression....
 in 1932. It produced three seasons of opera at the Civic Opera House from 1933 to 1935 before it too succumbed to financial difficulties. It was succeeded by the Chicago City Opera Company
Chicago City Opera Company

The Chicago City Opera Company was a opera company in Chicago, organized from the remaining assets of the bankrupt Chicago Grand Opera Company, that produced four seasons of opera at the Civic Opera House from 1935 to 1939 before it too succumbed to financial difficulties....
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Sources

  • Davis, Ronald L., Opera in Chicago, Appleton, New York City, 1966.
  • Marsh, Robert C. and Norman Pellegrini, 150 Years of Opera in Chicago, Northern Illinois University Press, Chicago 2006.