sentences:  He sang Don Giovanni to open the newly established Lyric Theatre of Chicago in February 1954 (renamed two years later as Lyric Opera of Chicago), and returned that fall for "Norma" with Callas in her American debut, and Basilio in "The Barber of Seville".The following season he appeared in "Puritani" with Callas, "Boheme" with Tebaldi, "Faust" with Bjoerling, "Elisir" with Carteri, and "L'amore dei tre re" with Kirsten.He created the roles of Thomas Beckett in "Assassinio nella cattedrale" ("Murder in the Cathedral") by Ildebrando Pizzetti (based on the T.S.