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They all laughed at Nathaniel Merrill when the longtime Met stage director headed off to Colorado in the early 1980s and promised theatergoers in Denver he'd not only stage grand opera with international stars but present it in the round. It was a thoroughly crazy, wonderfully ambitious idea. At the time, the city had a meager theater scene, a financially troubled orchestra, a struggling ballet company and not much else. Sure, Central City Opera, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains some forty miles west of Denver, had served up intimate opera-in-English since the turn of the century, hosting promising young singers such as Beverly Sills (who once sang Aida on the ...