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The Colorado Ballet Orchestra performs with the Company at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, either at three or four productions a year. With an annual operating budget exceeding $7.8 million, the company employs more than 150 people on either a full-time or part-time basis during the year. Colorado Ballet received the 2009 Colorado Masterpieces ...
In 1885, Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist Ferdinand Wythe Peck began ambitious plans for the building that would house the Auditorium Theatre. [3] At the time, Chicago was still recovering from the 1871 Great Chicago Fire and was rife with the contentious labor issues that would lead to the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing. Peck was ...
The Denver Performing Arts Complex (also referred to as the "Arts Complex") in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. The DCPA is a four-block, 12-acre (49,000 m 2 ) site containing ten performance spaces with over 10,000 seats connected by an 80-foot-tall (24 m) glass roof. [ 1 ]
The Iroquois Theatre fire was a catastrophic building fire in Chicago, Illinois, that broke out on December 30, 1903, during a performance attended by 1,700 people. The fire caused 602 deaths and 250 non-fatal injuries. [1]
The Paramount Theatre is a concert venue in Denver, Colorado, located on Glenarm Place, near Denver's famous 16th Street Mall.The venue has a seating capacity of 1,870 but is a popular destination for large acts looking for a smaller concert setting.
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Opera Colorado's first season in the new opera house opened on November 3, 2005 with a production of Carmen starring internationally known mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in the title role. The historic shell of the old Auditorium Theatre was rebuilt and named the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, honoring "Denver's First Lady of Opera".
Louis Richar's Band, from Chicago, played a number of concerts each year from 1903 to 1906. John Philip Sousa and his band appeared in the fall of 1904, after the Chautauqua season was over for that year. The 1910 program featured "costumed recitals from grand opera" presented by the Chicago Operatic Company on July 4.