Chicago Grand Opera Company
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Two grand opera companies in Chicago, Illinois, have gone by the name Chicago Grand Opera Company during the first half of the 20th century. Like many opera ventures in Chicago, both succumbed to fina
The Auditorium Building, home of the Chicago Grand Opera Company
Cleofonte Campanini
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Cleofonte Campanini was an Italian conductor and violinist. As a teenager he had a brief but successful career as a concert violinist in Italy and in theaters in Berlin and London. He abandoned the vi
Chicago Grand Opera Company
…group by Andreas Dippel, previously second in charge at the Met under Giulio Gatti-Casazza, and who became General Manager in at the Chicago opera with Cleofonte Campanini as musical director. The company also spent several months each year performing in the city of Philadelphia where it performed at the renamed Philadelphia…
Cleofonte Campanini