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A summer of song is just around the corner.

Prepare for an unforgettable summer of song.

Mozart’s THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO delivers comedy, trickery and romance.

DEAD MAN WALKING takes you on a nun’s spiritual journey with a death row inmate.

Denver comes alive with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s endearing classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. And add to your Festival

Central City Opera 2014 Festival

experience with two special performances of Trouble in Tahiti in the intimate Williams Stables Theatre.

Be transformed by the 2014 Central City Opera Festival.

June 28 – August 10

You won’t know until you go.

2014

Festival Offerings Wowing audiences with world-class

The Shows

Lunch & a Song

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO DEAD MAN WALKING Rated R (17+) THE SOUND OF MUSIC TROUBLE IN TAHITI

30-minute performances preceded by lunch to whet your opera appetite at the historic Teller House.

Find descriptions on the following pages.

Post-Op

in the Rocky Mountain setting of

Short Works

Central City, followed by a timeless

A wide array of engaging short scenes for opera veterans or virgins. Williams Stables Theatre.

Enjoy cocktails and impromptu performances

by Central City Opera stars after select weekend evening shows at the Teller House. Free.

performances since 1932, Central City Opera is a musical and theatrical experience like no other. The best of both worlds, the 2014 Festival offers two first-rate productions in our jewel-box theatre nestled

family musical at the Denver

The Marriage of Figaro

Performing Arts Complex.

Opera Notes

Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee

Free pre-performance talks 45 minutes before Central City main stage shows. Williams Stables Theatre.

This kid-friendly matinee includes a narrator’s preview and an autograph session with the singers. Bring a picnic and enjoy fun preshow activities.

Colorado Performing Arts Intensive Performances See two special performances by the high school kids attending this nationally renowned 2-week summer opera camp.

Williams Stables Theatre.

Mozart’s comic opera depicting a day of madness cleverly twists and turns with passion and lighthearted intrigue. Set in 17th century Spain, it continues the story of Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, who schemes to outwit the Count and his wish to have his way with Susanna, Figaro’s bride-to-be.

photo by mark and Kristen sink.

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte Conductor Adrian Kelly Director Alessandro Talevi Figaro Michael Sumuel Susanna Anna Christy Count Almaviva Lucas Meachem Countess Sinéad Mulhern Cherubino Tamara Gura Bartolo Thomas Hammons Marcellina Claire Shackleton Basilio Joseph Gaines Performed in Italian with English supertitles.

DEAD MAN WALKING

Rated R (17+)

Based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean that also inspired the award-winning movie, Jake Heggie’s powerful opera follows the true story of a nun’s spiritual journey as she counsels a Louisiana death row inmate. Sister Helen struggles with her own religious convictions as she leads the prisoner down a path to redemption.

Composer Jake Heggie Librettist Terrence McNally Conductor John Baril Director Ken Cazan Sister Helen Jennifer Rivera Joseph De Rocher Michael Mayes Mrs. De Rocher Maria Zifchak Sister Rose Jeanine De Bique George Benton Thomas Hammons Owen Hart Robert Orth Howard Boucher Joseph Gaines Jade Boucher Claire Shackleton Father Grenville Jason Baldwin photo by mark and Kristen sink.

Performed in English with English supertitles.

Prisons, Compassion and Redemption Project - For Mature Audiences Only (17+)

Explore the themes of DEAD MAN WALKING through a series of thought-provoking events from a film screening and panel discussions to prison-related art and book clubs. Meet the composer and Sister Helen Prejean at a symposium on March 12-14 also featuring prominent experts in the legal field and victim advocacy. For information visit CentralCityOpera.org/project.

The Sound of Music in denver

Rich with an uplifting story and music that soars, a young nunin-training-turned-governess marries an aristocratic widower and their family flees from Nazi Austria in this heartwarming tale. THE SOUND OF MUSIC will be performed only in Denver at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.

photo by mark and Kristen sink.

Composer Richard Rodgers Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II Conductor Craig Kier Director Ken Cazan Maria Katherine Manley Mother Abbess Maria Zifchak Captain von Trapp Troy Cook Max Detweiler Robert Orth Elsa Schraeder Lucy Schaufer Rolf Ian O’Brien Leisl Julie Tabash

Performed in English.

Ticket Prices

and a Few of your Favorite Things

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Trouble in Tahiti Leonard Bernstein’s witty one-act opera set to jazz rhythms depicts a couple’s marital challenges and longing for love beneath the sunny veneer of 1950s American suburbia. In the intimate 90-seat Williams Stables Theatre.

Music & Words Leonard Bernstein Music Director Thomas Getty Director Michael Ehrman Dinah Claire Shackleton Sam Isaac Bray Trio Leah Bobbey James Dornier Nicholas Ward Performed in English.

SUBSCRIPTION TICKET PRICING 3-pack subscriptions for The Marriage of Figaro and Dead Man Walking in Central City and The Sound of Music in Denver start of $56. (Save 20%)

Short Works $8 subscribers / $12 regular

Single Show Ticket Pricing The Marriage of Figaro, Dead Man Walking and The Sound of Music single show tickets are on sale now ranging from $20 to $106.

The Marriage of Figaro Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee $15 ages 6-18 / $20 adult Add pre-performance family fun for an extra $10.

Prices subject to change based on availability.

Subscribers have the exclusive opportunity to exchange their tickets for another performance of the same production at no additional charge.

Subscribers may also purchase additional single tickets at a 20% discount.

FREE events!

Opera Notes Post-Op (Formerly Après Opera)

Group Ticket Pricing Save 25% on groups of 10 or more people.

Stay and Play Visit CentralCityOpera.org and click on Your Visit for ideas on where to stay, dine, picnic or play in Central City and Black Hawk.

TROUBLE IN TAHITI $25 general admission Seating limited to 90 per show!

Performing Arts Intensive Performances $5 for all

Lunch & a Song $30 per person

Ride the Opera Bus Bus leaves at 10:45 am from Sports Authority in Glendale and at 11:15 am from Simms Steakhouse. Just $18 round trip.

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2014 Festival Schedule

June 28–August 10 303.292.6700 | CentralCityOpera.org

Central City Opera House Performances

Central City Opera House Performances

denver Performances

SAT 28 JUNE

TUE 8 JULY

SUN 13 JULY

SAT 19 JULY

SAT 26 JULY

SAT 2 AUG

8:00 pm

1:15 pm Short Works

11:45 am Lunch & a Song

1:15 pm Short Works

10:30 am Performing Arts Intensive

7:30 pm

2:30 pm

1:15 pm Short Works

2:30 pm

1:15 pm Short Works

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

11:45 am Lunch & a Song

WED 9 JULY

2:30 pm

SUN 20 JULY

2:30 pm

1:15 pm Short Works

11:45 am Lunch & a Song

BUS*

1:00 pm

2:30 pm

1:15 pm Short Works

TUE 15 JULY

2:30 pm

marriage of figaro

WED 2 JULY

marriage of figaro

FRI 4 JULY

marriage of figaro

2:30 pm

dead man walking

2:30 pm

marriage of figaro

dead man walking

1:15 pm Short Works

Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee

THU 10 JULY

2:30 pm

8:00 pm

WED 16 JULY

dead man walking

marriage of figaro

SUN 3 AUG 2:00 pm

sound of music Ellie Caulkins Opera House

trouble in tahiti marriage of figaro

sound of music

*Bus leaves at 10:45 am

WED 6 AUG

from Sports Authority in

2:00 pm

sound of music

TUE 22 JULY

Glendale and at 11:15 am

1:15 pm Short Works

from Simms Steakhouse.

2:30 pm

**Post-Op follows the show

7:30 pm

on select Fri & Sat night

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

THU 7 AUG

marriage of figaro

11:45 am Lunch & a Song

SAT 5 JULY

FRI 11 JULY

WED 23 JULY

8:00 pm

8:00 pm

1:15 pm Short Works 2:30 pm

trouble in tahiti

7:30 pm

2:30 pm

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

marriage of figaro

dead man walking

SUN 6 JULY 11:45 am Lunch & a Song 1:15 pm Short Works 2:30 pm

marriage of figaro BUS*

dead man walking Post-Op**

marriage of figaro BUS*

SAT 12 JULY

THU 17 JULY

8:00 pm

8:00 pm

marriage of figaro Post-Op**

marriage of figaro 1:00 pm

dead man walking

FRI 25 JULY

performances.

sound of music

FRI 8 AUG sound of music

SAT 9 AUG 2:00 pm

dead man walking

1:15 pm Short Works

sound of music

FRI 18 JULY

2:30 pm

SUN 10 AUG

8:00 pm

dead man walking

Post-Op**

7:00 pm Performing Arts Intensive

marriage of figaro

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

2:00 pm

sound of music

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

Celebrate song year-round in 2014 with two shows you won’t want to miss.

How Green Was My Valley

Amahl and the Night Visitors

PERFORMED IN COLORADO SPRINGS

PERFORMED IN DENVER

The award-winning novel by Richard Llewellyn is transformed through song in this story of courage by composer Roger Ames and librettist Elizabeth Bassine.

Mining brings unwelcome changes to a small community in Wales – both to their lives and to their once beloved green valley. Main character Huw Morgan finds his own way as he grows into manhood amidst family crisis.

Gian Carlo Menotti’s tuneful one-act opera brings the meaning of the holiday season home for all.

Through their encounters with the Three Kings and a magic star, shepherd boy Amahl and his mother learn how unselfish love and good deeds can work miracles.

December 12, 13, 14 Details coming soon.

A partnership of Central City Opera, The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and The Colorado Springs Conservatory.

Tickets starting at $15 available April 15.

Visit CentralCityOpera.org/valley for information.

photo by mark and Kristen sink.

August 14 and 15 – 8:00 pm First United Methodist Church Colorado Springs