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Chautauqua reveals 1959 concert and play lineup
The 86th Chautauqua season features concerts and plays led by Metropolitan baritone Leonard Warren opening July 6. Highlights include Kingston Trio July 11, Les Brown July 16, and world premieres and major works across July and August with Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner selections plus operas The Taming of the Shrew Madame Butterfly Wuthering Heights and Brigadoon scheduled through August 17.
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Chautauqua
Leonard Warren
Kingston Trio
Les Brown
Walter Hendl
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninoff
Murial Kilby
Beethoven
Manon Lescaut
Mr.Straight
Alexander Tcherepnin
William Walton
Irving Fine
Rogers and Hammerstein
King and I
Oklahoma
Oscar Hammerstein II
Marietta
Lerner-Loewe
Gigi
the Symphony
The
Chautauqua Repertory Theatre
Frederic McConnell
Kirk Willis
K. Elmor Lowe
A. A. Milne
Vanya
Anton Chekov
Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett
Sean O’casey
Paul Shyre
Shakespeare
Emmet Lavery
Ira Levin
Chautauqua Opera Association
Vittorio Giannini
Lerner and Loewe