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In the early 1900s the Claremont Opera House was the entertainment center for the Upper Connecticut River Valley area. Much of this early success was due to Harry Eaton, local druggist and manager of the Opera House for 32 years. Eaton arranged for theatrical and musical acts, vaudeville minstrel shows, and films to perform in Claremont.
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.
The historic district includes buildings facing these two areas, as well as adjacent blocks of Sullivan, Pleasant and Tremont streets. The Claremont Opera House occupies a prominent central location, with the public library, main fire station, and Universalist Church occupying prominent locations facing Broad Street Park. Commercial buildings ...
The completed center viewed from the South. Construction on additional facilities is nearing completion. The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, preliminarily referred to as the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, is a $354-million multi-venue center in the Dallas Arts District for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of ...
Chad Shelton (born 1970 in Orange, Texas) is an American operatic tenor.Particularly associated with the Houston Grand Opera (HGO), Shelton has excelled in performances of contemporary American operas and in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi.
Opera in the Heights held its first Gala Opera Evening, a Fledermaus Party, in Lambert Hall on April 12, 1996. A few days later, an arsonist set fire to Lambert Hall, having poured flammables onto the piano and the backstage storage.
Big Bridges under construction in 1931. The auditorium was built as a joint project of the Claremont Colleges consortium. It was sponsored by Appleton and Amelia (nee Timken) Bridges, the parents of Mabel Shaw Bridges, a student in Pomona's class of 1908 who died of illness in her junior year, [5] and H.H. Timken, president of the Timken Roller Bearing Company.
Pomona uses Little Bridges for a variety of musical and non-musical events, including convocation, practices and performances by the Pomona College Orchestra, and guest speaker lectures. [5] The college also allows community and other outside groups to use the hall. [5] It hosts roughly 45 musical performances per year, most of which are free ...