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Tickets for Central City Opera’s 2011 Festival will go on sale in the Fall of 2010. The festival next summer in Central City, Colorado features a wide range of selections for every operatic palate: Bizet's Carmen; the North American Premiere of Handel's Amadigi di Gaula; and a double bill of three one act operas, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias) and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill.
In addition, Central City Opera offers many other programs throughout the year. Tickets for these can be purchased quickly and securely via the links below or by calling the Box Office at 303-292-6700 (unless otherwise noted below).
You can also purchase tickets in person at the Denver Box Office, located at 400 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 525, Denver, CO 80246.
All ticket buyers are subject to our ticketing policies. The box office will contact you if there are any difficulties regarding your order.
Again, tickets for the 2011 Festival will go on sale in the Fall of 2011.
Special Events and Fundraisers
We're more than just a "summer company", purchase tickets to the following events:
Comedy Night (Benefit for Historic Georgetown, Inc.)
- September 10, 2010
Carmen by Georges Bizet
(Summer 2011)
The 2011 Festival opens with Georges Bizet’s famous story of love, jealousy, and murder. Set in Seville, Spain, the story follows the romance of the beautiful gypsy, Carmen, and Corporal Don José. After their relationship leads him to reject his former love, commit mutiny against a superior officer and join a gang of smugglers, Don José’s jealousy turns to murder when Carmen leaves him for a bullfighter.
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Tickets will go on sale in the Fall of 2010.
Amadigi di Gaula by George Friedrich Handel
(Summer 2011)
This “knight in shining armor” tale follows Amadigi, a Paladin (warrior of Charlemagne’s court) and Dardano, Prince of Thrace, who are both in love with the beautiful Oriana, daughter of the King of the Fortune Islands. Oriana prefers Amadigi, as does the sorceress Melissa. Considered one of Handel’s “magic” operas, Melissa fights for Amadigi’s love through the use of sorcery and potions, but true love prevails in the end. Central City Opera’s new production will be the North American premiere of the first fully-staged version of Amadigi di Gaula with direction by British stage director Alessandro Talevi, who makes his U.S. debut with the production.
[Production details]
Tickets will go on sale in the Fall of 2010.
Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
(Summer 2011)
Based on a story referred to in Dante’s Divine Comedy, this comic one act opera follows the family of Buoso Donati, an extremely wealthy man who dies and leaves his fortune to the local monks. The family begs the cunning Gianni Schicchi to help them procure Donati’s fortune, and hijinks ensue. Best known for the soprano aria, “O mio babbino caro (Oh, my dear Papa),” the opera is the third portion of Puccini’s trilogy of one act operas, Il trittico.
[Production details]
Tickets will go on sale in the Fall of 2010.
Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill
(Summer 2011)
This satirical ballet chante, or “sung ballet,” in seven scenes was the last collaboration between Weill and Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the libretto. It follows the story of Anna and her split personalities, the singer (Anna I), and a dancer (Anna II). Anna travels to seven cities, running into a sin in each city, as she searches for money to build a home for her family.
[Production details]
Tickets will go on sale in the Fall of 2010.
Les Mamelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias)
by Francis Poulenc (Summer 2011)
This surrealist opéra bouffe (comic opera) is set in the imaginary town of Zanzibar, near Monte Carlo. It follows the story of Thérèse, who tires of her life as a submissive woman and becomes the male Tirésias when her breasts turn in to balloons and float away. She then tries to conquer the world as General Tiresisas; meanwhile her husband finds a way to bear children without women. Les Mamelles first premiered at the Opéra Comique in 1947. The comic opera was a much needed relief for Parisians in the midst of war.
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Tickets will go on sale in the Fall of 2010.
Festival Extras and Events
Add more to your festival experience with extras featuring members of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program. Festival Extras for the 2011 Festival have not been announced.
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Opera Notes are free pre-performance lectures and do not require a ticket.
