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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 city limits extend south along the Central City Parkway into Clear Creek County, as far as Interstate 70. The city is bordered by Black Hawk to the east and Idaho Springs to the south. At the 2020 United States census , the city had a total area of 1,382 acres (5.5940 km 2 ), including 0.07 acres (0.0003 km 2 ) of water.
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.
By the time the Territory of Colorado was formed on February 28, 1861, Central City was already the largest city in the entire territory, though Denver was made the state capital. The Central City/Black Hawk area was a basically continuous arc of mining camps and urban development, with a population of more than 3,000 at its height in 1870.
Central City and Black Hawk 39°48′04″N 105°30′47″W / 39.8010090°N 105.5130620°W / 39.8010090; -105.5130620 ( Central City/Black Hawk Historic Gilpin
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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A wagon train Denver, Colorado in 1859. Cropped detail of stereoscope: Central City, Colorado Territory, by W. G. Chamberlain (William Gunnison) Central City Opera House, a chair memorializes Clara Brown. An opera about her life story, Gabriel's Daughter, was presented in 2003 Panorama of Denver, Colorado, 1898