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The Central City Opera, 1982. Central City Opera is the fifth-oldest opera company in the United States, founded in 1932 by Julie Penrose and Anne Evans. [1] Each festival is presented in the 550-seat historic Central City Opera House built in 1878 in the gold mining era town of Central City, Colorado. [2]
The Central City Opera House is located in the Central City/Black Hawk Historic District in Central City, Colorado, United States.It was constructed in 1878. [3] It has offered operatic and theatrical productions that drew prominent actors and performers in the late 19th-century, and in the early 20th-century it was a motion picture theater.
The Central City Opera House Association hired me to do a series of paintings and sketches of the famous mining town, which they were then rejuvenating as an opera center and tourist attraction. I stayed at the Teller House while working up there, and the whim struck me to paint a face on the floor of the old Teller House barroom.
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This is an inclusive list of opera festivals and summer opera seasons, and music festivals which have opera productions. This list may have some overlap with list of early music festivals . Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition, and has long been performed for audiences on a large-scale format.
Since its founding in 1974, the Chorale has sung performances with performing arts organizations including The Colorado Symphony, Central City Opera, Opera Colorado, Colorado Ballet, Opera Omaha, Toledo Opera, the Aspen Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the BBC Orchestra and Chorus of Wales.
Central City, 1862 Central City Opera House, 1934 On May 6, 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, John H. Gregory found a gold -bearing vein (the Gregory Lode) in Gregory Gulch between Black Hawk and Central City.
Melissa in Handel's Amadigi di Gaula at the Central City Opera House; Olympia in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and the Bayerische Staatsoper; Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera and the San Diego Opera; Poppea in Handel's Agrippina at the Boston Lyric Opera