Music: In Chicago

Monday, Aug. 18, 1924

The Chicago Civic Opera Company announced its intentions for the coming Winter's season, which opens on Nov. 5. The season will be inaugurated by a revival of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's grisly, melodious thriller. First produced in Milan, in 1876, it tells in music a terrible story of love, licit and illicit, revenge, suicide, murder, Inquisition horrors and Venetian gondoliers. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and Antonio Cortis, a new Spanish tenor, will sing.

Other productions will include Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Montemezzi's Love of Three Kings, Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin.

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