Michelle Monroe in Dido and Aeneas, 2021 Performing at 8,500 feet above sea level is no small task, as the 30 handpicked trainees find out when they arrive for the intense 10-week experience. What does it take for thousands of singers to prepare for opera company...
Constructing a grand hotel was part of a thoughtful strategy to show investors that Central Ctiy was a legitimate and permanent mining town worth investing in. Once billed as “the finest hotel west of the Mississippi,” the Teller House in Central City has stood...
by Alex Miller, Onstage Colorado [Original article here] A fun, thoroughly batty operetta in Central City The storied opera house serves up a beautiful production of Strauss’s ‘Die Fledermaus’ Somehow over the past 30 years seeing and writing about theatre in...
by David Marlowe, Marlowe’s Musings [Original article here] This is a decadently scrumptious confection that’s so exhilarating, you can’t afford to miss it. Run to get tickets! Strike whatever’s on your calendar! Central City Opera’s production of “Die...
by Bob Bows, Colorado Drama [Original article here] Just as Giacomo Puccini fell in love with the gold rush days of the mid-nineteenth century American “Wild West” (La fanciulla del West), Americans love to romanticize post-World War II Italy, as we see in...
by David Marlowe, Marlowe’s Musings [Original article here] Based upon the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer and the 1960 film that starred Olivia de Havilland, “The Light in the Piazza, the Musical,” has music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and book by Craig...
