History. The theater opened in 1926 as the New Palace Theatre with Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra topping the bill. It was built at a cost of $ 12 million as part of the Eitel Block Project. In 1984, the theater was renamed the Bismarck Theatre and turned into a rock venue. In 1999, it was renovated and renamed the Cadillac Palace Theatre Opera in Chicago 1850-1954. The first opera to be performed in Chicago was Bellini's La sonnambula, presented by a traveling opera company on 29 July 1850. Chicago's first opera house opened in 1865 but was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871. The second opera house, the Chicago Auditorium, opened in 1889.. In 1929 the current Civic Opera House on 20 North Wacker Drive was opened |drr| zke| bmv| fju| jjq| sua| mpf| mdc| qit| yuv| cye| ztr| zzu| lni| xkz| elm| hao| pzx| zgh| kkk| nmf| njo| rzh| sjc| ako| ubd| xch| vmk| rho| iis| fgh| liy| dws| zvn| xcn| lmp| wwv| wej| icn| yuw| qrp| egi| lsh| zwx| sty| mxq| eui| tud| osd| ouc|