Author: Special to The Denver Gazette
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Opera Colorado drops upcoming production; confirms leadership transition
A major budget shortfall has forced Opera Colorado to reduce its upcoming season from three mainstage productions to two, Marketing Director Jennifer Colgan said Thursday. She also confirmed that following the 2024-25 season, the company will have its first leadership transition in two decades. “The previously announced production of Verdi’s “Il trovatore” has been removed…
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Guitarist Joe Bonamassa keeps the blues alive at Red Rocks this Sunday
Fresh off his 26th stop atop Billboard’s blues album chart — and back from an international tour in Europe — blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa takes the iconic Red Rocks stage for the 12th time this Sunday, Aug. 6. Born and raised in Utica, N.Y., Bonamassa first met and played with the “King of the Blues,”…
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Denver’s traffic deaths on pace to break last year’s number
As of Sunday, 42 driving-related deaths have occurred in Denver, a trend that would leave the city with more than 80 traffic deaths every year since 2021. Last year, Denver recorded 84 fatalities, a number 2023 is on pace to break, assuming the current trend holds. A traffic death involves an incident with a motor…
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Two composers honor Chautauqua’s 125th birthday
Opened in 1898 as part of the nationwide Chautauqua movement established by Texas schoolteachers to create extra summertime education opportunities for their ranks, Boulder’s Chautauqua Park and its spacious auditorium have since welcomed hikers, picnickers and concert-goers for a century-and-a-quarter. To open Sunday’s Colorado Music Festival concert in the auditorium, the hall’s 125th anniversary will…
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Musical remembrance of JFK’s final speech to premiere in Boulder
Boulder’s’ Neil Bicknell was there in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy gave his final speech at Amherst College in honor of Robert Frost. It was Bicknell’s idea to turn the occasion into the concert “The Last Speech,“ which will have its world premiere performance on Sunday at the Colorado Music Festival, along with a new…
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Denver production of Puccini’s opera “Turandot” tackles stereotypes
It’s a good thing that Opera Colorado’s four performances of “Turandot” are almost sold-out. This might be the last chance for locals to see Puccini’s final opera. At least, that’s what Kara Shay Thomson has been hearing. “There’s a thought in the industry that it could disappear,” the soprano said with a look of disappointment.…
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Wonderbound dancer says farewell after 14 ‘dangerous’ seasons with Denver company
As a boy growing up in a tough Baltimore inner city neighborhood, Damien Patterson fell in love with modern dance. A dangerous romance. No surprise that he didn’t find much support for it. “My family tried to talk me out of it,” he recalled, flashing an irrepressible smile under a few short dangling braids. Luckily,…
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For ‘long haulers,’ coronavirus is long-term struggle
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Maggie Glass has kept a video diary of her long haul experience. This is an excerpt from July. She is still incapacitated. { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “NEWS | Video diary from Maggie Glass”, “description”: “Maggie Glass has kept a video diary of her…
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For Sand Creek memorial sculptor, crime fighting and grief are etched into his past
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When sculptor Harvey Pratt looked at his Sand Creek Memorial prototype, he felt there was something missing. The mournful grief he had molded on the Cheyenne mother’s face was not enough. She is wailing, on…
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For Sand Creek memorial sculptor, crime fighting and grief are etched into his past
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When sculptor Harvey Pratt looked at his Sand Creek Memorial prototype, he felt there was something missing. The mournful grief he had molded on the Cheyenne mother’s face was not enough. She is wailing, on her knees over the murder of her child, her right…