Chicago Opera’s 40-Year Home Leaves Auditorium
The Chicago Civic Opera ends its 40 year residency at the Auditorium with a final performance on January 26. Next fall a new 42 story opera house will rise above the riverfront. Edith Mason and Charles Hackett set to star as Juliet and Romeo in the finale. Prominent guests include President Benjamin Harrison amid a guest list of famed operatic stars who graced the venue since 1839.
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Sullivan designed theater complex with hotel opera and tower
The 1887 project by Louis H. Sullivan combined hotel opera ballroom convention hall and office quarters with a tower. A passage dubbed Bong Bird Alley linked the Auditorium with the Fine Arts building. The Auditorium sits at Congress, Wabash, and Michigan. the new opera sits across the loop at Washington, Madison and Wacker Drive near the Chicago Daily News building.
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Hoover and Briton Invited To Virginia For Celebration
Herbert Hoover and Sir Eenne Howard British ambassador were invited to join an April 26 Cape Henry commemoration marking the 322nd landing of English colonists. A Norfolk group will travel by road. Hoover would sail the Mayflower from the Potomac to Chesapeake Bay if he accepts.
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