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April 1958: Poster - A Life for the Czar
   
In April 1958 the YRC presented a concert version of the first act of Mikhail Glinka's opera, A Life for the Czar (known in the USSR as Ivan Susanin), in collaboration with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. This was the first US performance of the original Glinka version.

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