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The H1eclakc Club 361 Incidental Dances by Anna Ludmilla and Corps de Ballet Nineteenth Festival, 1926: Chicago Civic Opera presented ••La Gioconda" (Ponchielll) Conductor, Giorgio Polacco Artists: Rosa Raisa Gildo Morelato Augusta Lenska Desire Defrere Flora Perini Ludovico Oliviero Antonio Cortis Glocomo Rimini Alexander Kipnis Antonio Nlcollch Incidental Dances by Miles Shermont, Dagmara, Nemeroff, Romany and Corps de Ballet "'Boris Godunotf" (Modest Moussorgsky) Conductor, Giorgio Polacco Artists: Feodor Chaliapin Lodovico Oltvlero Gladys Swartout Augusta Lenska Elizabeth Kerr :f"J.ora Perini Jose Mojica Romeo Boscacci Forrest Lamont Gulseppe Minerva Virgilio Lazzari Alice D'Hermanoy Edouard Cotreuil Cilda Morelato Antonio Nicolich Twentieth Festival, 1926: Carolyn Powers Thomas, violinist Soloists: Kathryn Brown, contralto Rudolph Ganz, Conductor St. Louis Symphony Twenty-first Festival, 1927: Chicago Civic Opera presented Alda (Verdi) Conductor, Giorgio Polacco Artists : Rosa Raisa Edouard Cotreuil Augusta Lenska Virgilio Lazzari Florence Misgen Giacomo Rimtnl Charles Marshall Lodovico Oliviero Incidental Dances by Miles, Shermont, Samuels and Corps de Ballet La Traviata (Verdi) Conductor, Roberto Moranzoni Artists: Claudia Muzio Desire Defrere Charles Hackett Giovanni Polese Richard Bonelli Antonio Nicolich Alice d'Hermanoy Anna Correnti Jose Mojica Gildo Morelato Incidental Dances by Miles, Shermont, Samuels and Corps de Ballet Twenty-second Festival, 1928: 11 Trovatore (Verdi) Conductor, Henry G. Weber Artists: Rosa Raisa Eugenio Sandrini Alice d'Hermanoy Albert Rappaport Giacomo Rimtni Virgilllo Lazzari Antonio Cortis Cyrena Van Gordon Incidental Dances by Misses Chapman, Flnholt, Letteaux, N. Smith and Ballet Rigoletto (Verdi) Conductor, George Polacco .

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