The Central City Opera has announced the cast for Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” The star-studded cast of the production will feature a host of performers who have graced the stage everywhere from Seattle to Salzburg, from Minnesota Opera to the Metropolitan Opera. The Creative Team will be led by Eric Sean Fogel who directs at Central City for the first {…}
Central City Opera is gearing up for its “Opera Teaser” on March 13, 2025. The organization revealed that Hilary Ginther, Javier Abreu, Alex DeSocio, and Jeremy Reger will be the performers for the evening, which kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails at The Wellshire Event Calendar. The performance proper will kick off at 7:30 p.m. with a 6:30 dinner {…}
Central City Opera has added a production to its 2025 season. The company said that it will showcase the Broadway musical “Once Upon A Mattress.” The company added, “We are thrilled to bring this hilarious, heartwarming twist on a classic fairy tale to the Opera House mainstage. Packed with golden-age Broadway tunes, clever humor, and larger-than-life characters, ‘Once Upon A {…}
The annual L’Esprit de Noël Holiday Home Tour will grace the historic Crestmoor Park neighborhood. The event will take place on Nov. 22 and 23, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Organized by the Central City Opera Guild volunteers and will celebrate 40 years since the tour’s first visit to Crestmoor, and is the 50th anniversary of {…}
The Central City Opera has announced its 2025 season. The season will take place between June 28 and August 3, 2025, and will be the first festival programmed by newly appointed Artistic Director Alison Moritz. Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” will return to the Central City Opera will for the first time in 12 years. Aleksandra Vrebalov and Deborah Brevoort’s {…}
Denver Lyric Opera Guild and Central City Opera are teaming up to present a concert featuring Cynthia Lawrence. The soprano will be joined by pianist Jeremy Reger and participants of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Vocal Competition on Sept. 27, 2024 at the Applewood Valley United Methodist Church in Golden, Colorado. Lawrence has had a major operatic career, following her {…}
(Credit: Courtesy of Central City Opera) The Central City Opera has announced that it will “Amahl and the Night Visitors” for the holiday season. The work will be shown three times on Dec. 20, 21, and 22 at the Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Denver. “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is a family-friendly opera and has endured since its premiere {…}
(Photo credit: Amanda Tipton) Central City Opera (CCO) resurges in 2023-24, the institution entering the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, installing Alison Moritz as Artistic Director and bouncing back from a turbulent 2023 marked by labor strife, now buoyed by the new leadership of CEO Scott Finlay. With a reinforced endowment, CCO’s ambitious 2024 summer festival season programmed Gilbert and {…}
Central City Opera has postponed its 2024 festival preview. The event, originally scheduled for April 27, 2024, will be canceled due to severe weather. The organization will reschedule the event for a later date in May. The company did note that it will still hold its Festival Preview at The Muse in Lafayette on Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. {…}
(Photo credit: Michael Cooper) Central City Opera has announced its 2024 “Theatre of Dreams” Gala honoring the legacy of Judy and Newell Grant will star American soprano, Sara Gartland. The evening’s highlights include a cocktail hour, dinner and dessert, an auction, and entertainment by Sara Gartland. The 2024 Gala commemorates former Chair of the Board of Directors Judy Grant, who {…}
Central City Opera has announced the appointment of stage director Alison Moritz as its new Artistic Director. Moritz was selected from a vast pool of talented applicants through a rigorous and highly competitive national search process led by Jonathan West on behalf of Management Consultants for the Arts (MCA) and CCO’s volunteer Search Committee, chaired by CCO Board of Directors {…}
