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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.
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.
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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The Central City Opera House dedicated a permanent memorial chair in her name. [13] [3] Brown is the subject of the opera Gabriel's Daughter by Henry Mollicone and William Luce, which premiered at Central City Opera in 2003. [14]
With the vision of City Manager William Chlopan and under the oversight of five-term Mayor Ellis Olson, the push to finish the Opera House took on momentum in 1982 and 1983.