It’s important for a community to have a really fine acoustic hall like the Opera House.
Reflecting on the Ellie’s impact 10 years later, Opera Colorado general director Greg Carpenter says, “I think it’s a great resource to the community. Today, the Ellie hosts numerous cultural events, from comedians to lectures to special screenings during the annual Denver Film Festival. Its creation gave the Opera a venue with better acoustics and a large enough space that they could scale up the size and scope of productions. “Ellie” Caulkins, an emphatic opera supporter whose affection for the medium began in an “Opera as Drama” class at the University of Colorado at Denver. Built in 1908, it was previously known as as the Auditorium Theatre. The Ellie welcomes top artists and touring shows to the Mile High City and is also where the Colorado Ballet and Opera Colorado perform their season productions each year.The Ellie, as it’s known, opened in 2005. The Ellie is one of only three opera houses in the United States, one of nine worldwide, with seatback titling at every seat in the house. The opera house is humidified and provides state-of-the-art technical support as well as acoustical excellence and clean sightlines. The Ellie is a world-class acoustical hall designed in the lyric style with four levels: balcony, loge, mezzanine and orchestra. With a rich and eventful history since opening in 1908, the Ellie has been renovated many times and most notably in the early 2000s when everything but its historic shell was rebuilt into a lyric opera house. Through seat tax revenues and bond proceeds, private donations and a generous gift from the Caulkins family, the venue reopened in 2005 as the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, honoring Denver's First Lady of Opera, Ellie Caulkins. The Ellie Caulkins Opera House, known simply as “the Ellie,” is the premier venue inside of the historic Quigg Newton Denver Municipal Auditorium.
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