Word: godounoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...productions (all revivals): Orpheus and Eurydice, Falstaff, Louise, Boris Godounoff, Thais, Fidelia...
When in 1928 Jules Falk, a Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
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