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| Date: | 02 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Finalists in tryouts for leading roles in the first opera ever to be presented by the Wisconsin Players are shown here with Doris Kassel, accompanist, at a... |
| Date: | 10 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Rise Stevens arrives in Madison for a concert at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Greeting her at the train station are George Holcomb, Kankakee, Illinois, stu... |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A long line forming at the Wisconsin Union Theater ticket office with hopes to attend the performance of "Traviata." |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Anticipating an evening of musical pleasure at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Theater's production of "Traviata," were Professor and Mrs. Lelan... |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Photographed as they arrived at the Wisconsin Union Theater to see the opera "Traviata" were Professor and Mrs. Roland K. Meyer. Professor Meyer is a membe... |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Among the many University of Wisconsin faculty couples at the Memorial Union Theater to see the opera "Traviata" were Professor and Mrs. Andrew T. Weaver. ... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | The Chinese Student Association of the University of Wisconsin presents an historical opera called "The Song of Ch'u." The costumed leading actors, from l... |
| Date: | 01 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Faculty advisor Ernest Justice posing with members of the cast of the operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore" which students of Wisconsin High school will present at th... |
| Date: | 01 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Eight members of the Wisconsin Ballet, including Mrs. David Johnson who is facing the camera, dance in the final scene of Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" wh... |
| Date: | 03 26 1964 |
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| Description: | Rehearsing a scene from "Hodag," a folk operetta by David Peterson, are (left to right) Rogers Keene, Director Leonard Schach, and Pat Brown. Leonard Scha... |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. John J. Stiennon waiting for friends in the Memorial Union lobby prior to attending the opera "Traviata." |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Smiling a greeting to friends at the Memorial Union theater prior to the opera "Traviata" were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bassett. |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. (Helen) Walter E. Meanwell and Mrs. Edward J. Young attending the opera "Traviata" at the Memorial Union Theater. They are wearing white gloves for th... |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Chatting in the lobby of the Union Memorial Theater before the opera "Traviata" were Mrs. Homer M. Carter, Dr. Carter, and Mrs. Dewey Edson. |
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| Description: | Billboard in front of the J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Factory advertising "That funny old farmer Uncle Josh Spruceby Has made millions laugh. Opera Hous... |
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| Description: | Two men on a scaffold inside the Werner Opera House. Advertisements for local merchants are on the stage curtain, and there is an upright piano in the fore... |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Don Philipp of 1102 Gilson Street works on the lighting for the Central High School production of operetta "The Waltz Dream." |
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| Description: | Brass band with eight musicians posed standing on the street in front of the Opera House. At the far right is Carl Pope. Signs advertise "John T. Hinds in ... |
| Date: | 02 02 1949 |
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| Description: | East High School students Beverly Sime, playing the piano, and Frank Hanson, rehearsing for the "Pirates of Penzance" operetta. |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Flute players, Penny Brown, 642 State Street and Dennis Beecher, 547 Randall Avenue, rehearse for a scene from "A Waltz Dream," an operetta presented at Ce... |
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