By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 17, 2011 Yes, the opera. The New York Times of 10 October 1880 announced a new comic opera soon to be performed in that city: The opera of “Deseret; or, a Saint’s Difficulties,” which is to be produced at Haverly’s Fourteenth-Street Theatre to-morrow evening, is said to be an attempt to portray the comical side of Mormonism in song. Though Artemas Ward and other humorists have seen plainly the...
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