The Santa Fe production, which continues through Aug. 25, is thrilling audiences that —appreciate its energy, its modernity, its relevance, and the fact that it is only 90 minutes long.
Let's party like it's 1875.
What does it say about opera fans that they enjoy the ruthless "Lucia di Lammermoor" so much?
The memorial, now accepting designs, will be "intended as a place where the community and those affected by loss can remember loved ones, seek comfort, strength, peace and hope."
Big shows, new venues, city-wide festivals ... there's a lot of culture coming Denver's way this year. Here are 10 things-in-the-making that warrant serious anticipation.
"The Girl of the Golden West" is a logical choice for Opera Colorado. It's a wonder that it took the company 25 years to produce it. The work is, after all, set in the American West during t…
"The Ballad of Baby Doe" is one of the most successful works of art ever launched in Colorado and it's a privilege to get to see it resurrected by Central City Opera, the company that dreame…
Every production of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" is a major event at Central City Opera. Composer Douglas Moore's tale of romance and ruin in Colorado's early days put the little company on the …
The local opera scene takes some down time in June, but the Metropolitan Opera House in New York is stepping in with encore screenings of its biggest hits from last season at movie theaters …
Denver's Empire Lyric Players perform more Gilbert and Sullivan
Don't miss this: DCPA's "Sweeney Todd" nears its bloody end
As an opera, "The Shining" knows it's good to be King
Whenever a company in the West does this opera set in the West, it's a good bet it will bring something new and interesting to the picture.
New operas can scare you for all the wrong reasons. You worry that the sets will malfunction, or the singers.
Opera is a big-picture art form, less concerned with the moment than the millennia, and holding in the highest regard titles that date back centuries by the likes of Handel, Monteverdi, Moza…
The DCPA's new production of "Sweeney Todd" is easily the theater event of the year in Denver.
Opera is a big picture art form, less concerned with the moment than the millennia, and holding in the highest regard titles that date back centuries by the likes of Handel, Monteverdi, Moz…
Opera Colorado has been promoting its premiere of Lori Laitman's "The Scarlet Letter" for so long, you might miss the actual event, which takes place over four nights starting Saturday.
The Denver Public Schools' annual Shakespeare Festival kicks it up a notch this year with an "After-Fest" bringing together a long list of regional performers in the name of The Bard.
Few American novels want to be an opera as much as "The Scarlet Letter." Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of adultery and redemption serves up a love triangle worthy of Puccini, and just the sort …
"Alice (in Wonderland) is a big, colorful acid trip of a ballet, a welcome update of Lewis Carroll's classic tale that aims to meet the action-packed expectations of contemporary audiences.
Semantically speaking, opera-goers fall into two distinct categories. About half say they go to "hear" opera. The rest prefer to say they go "see" it.
Opera is set up for the safe bet — for commodities as sure and sound as Mozart and Verdi — and suddenly that's wholly inconvenient.
The Lyric Opera couldn't have known five years ago, when it started planning "Bel Canto," that terrorism would be the hottest topic in America the very week the work would premiere.
family opera: Central City teams with Trinitytonight-sunday. Two of the region's most-respected cultural institutions — the Central City Opera and Trinity United Methodist Church &mda…