Season of 1903-'04. Columbia Theatre, absolutely fireproof, Luckett & Dwyer, lessees and managers, N. Stein, treasurer. Grand operatic festival. Mr. Henry M. Savage offers a musical festival of grand opera in English by the greatest English singing company in the world. Full grand opera orchestra, all new scenic productions, unrivaled all-American chorus. "Othello," a lyric drama in four acts, founded on Shakespeare's tragedy, by Arrigo Boito (English version restored by Francis Hueffer, the English author and critic). Music by Giuseppe Verdi (First produced at La Scala Thater, Milan, in 1887. First performance in Englsih was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 6, 1903, by Henry W. Savage's English Grand Opera Company.

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