Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — English Opera in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

English Opera in Chicago.

The management of McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, make the following important announcement: Announcement is respectfully made that a season of grand opera, sung in the English language, will be given m McVicker's Theater, under the artistic direction of Theodore Thomas, beginning Monday evening, May 24. The season will consist of twelve evenings and two afternoon performances. The operas will be faithfully reproduced with the same grand ensemble, the same splendor of mise-en-scene, and the same casts as in New York. Mr. Thomas’ complete orchestra will be heard, and the operas will be produced under hie musical d rection; the chorus will number One hundred voices, and the ballet will number 56 to 80 dancers, as the requirements of each representation inay demand. It is the intention of the management that thia opera season shall contain a series of representations which, for brilliancy of every feature that combines to'make grand opera worthy of the name, will never have been approached in this city. For these representations American singers—most of whom were born in the United States—have been engaged They have been selected for their musical training, their experience in opera, and their suitability for the roles of the repertory chosen. Qf the singers not born in America, with few exceptions, it may fairly be said that by education, field of labor, and length of residence they are as truly American as an equal number of the foremost American-born singers in the comoiDY. Huge piled-up masses of white cloud in a blue sky, during winter, indicate snow or hail. If small, dark clouds float below die tipper ones, moving faster than they, rain will follow, as it will if, in the morning, low, hanging, pale brown, smoke-like clouds are floating about. The man who is out of doors at sunrise can form a pretty accurate opinion of what the day is toT>e. If just before sunrise the sky, especially in the west, is suffused with red, rain generally follows in the course of the da#. In winter, often snow.