Gisuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto has its first performance in the United States at the Academy of Music in New York City. (By John Osborne)
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              John W. Freeman, The Metropolitan Opera, Stories of the Great Operas (New York, The Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1984) p. 462
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