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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.
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.
Armida in Handel's Rinaldo at the Central City Opera House; Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Metropolitan Opera and the Minnesota Opera; Chiang Ch'ing in John Adams's Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera and the Chicago Opera Theater; La Fée in Massenet's Cendrillon at Opéra de Lille and the Metropolitan Opera
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.
The opera's premiere took place at the Central City Opera in Colorado in 1956. Hanya Holm and Edwin Levy directed the production, and sopranos Dolores Wilson and Leyna Gabriele alternated in the title role. The opera's New York premiere, directed by Vladimir Rosing, was presented at the New York City Opera in 1958. This revised version added ...
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One of his most popular works is the one-act chamber opera The Face on the Barroom Floor. Originally commissioned in 1978 for the Central City Opera of Central City, Colorado, The Face on the Barroom Floor was inspired by the painting of the same title on the floor of the Teller House Bar in Central City. [3]