Resident opera companies began in Chicago in 1910 with the Chicago Grand Opera Company being formed from the remains of the Manhattan Opera Company, which had been founded by Oscar Hammerstein I, and had been squeezed out by the more financially sound Metropolitan Opera. The old Auditorium continued to produce stage shows and musicals until it closed in 1941.
In 1929 the current Civic Opera House on 20 North Wacker Drive was opened, though the Chicago Civic Opera Company itself collapsed in the Great Depression. The second opera house, the Chicago Auditorium, opened in 1889. Chicago's first opera house opened in 1865 but was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871.
The first opera to be performed in Chicago was Bellini's La sonnambula, presented by a traveling opera company on 29 July 1850.
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