Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago

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The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian emigrants in 1956,{{cite web

| url = http://www.lithoperachicago.org/

| title = About the Lithuanian Opera Company, Inc. in Chicago

| access-date = September 14, 2006

| publisher = Lithuanian Opera Co.

| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051221183321/http://lithoperachicago.org/index.html

| archive-date= December 21, 2005

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and presents operas in Lithuanian. It celebrated fifty years of existence in 2006, and operates as a not-for-profit organization. It is noteworthy for performing the rarely staged Rossini's William Tell (1986) and Ponchielli's I Lituani (1981, 1983 and 1991), and also for contributing experienced chorus singers to the Lyric Opera of Chicago.{{cite book

| author = Marsh, Robert C.

| editor = Pellegrini, Norman

| title = 150 Years of Opera in Chicago

| publisher = Northern Illinois University Press

| location = DeKalb, Illinois

| isbn = 0-87580-353-9

| chapter = Author's Preface

| no-pp = true

| page = xii}}

The opera Jūratė and Kastytis by Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis was presented in Chicago, Illinois in 1996.[http://www.lituanus.org/1996/96_2_04.htm Posters by Ada Sutkus for the Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago]

Lithuanians operas were sometimes held at Maria High School in Chicago and such operas are now sometimes held at Morton East High School in Cicero, Illinois.