In 1962 Harry played the opera RIGOLETTO, performed by the American Opera Company in Chicago. Curiously, there is no evidence on the Web of this company’s existence in Chicago,save for a letter from Herbert Hoover that mentioned it. Yet the program says the company was founded in 1929.
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