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| September 01, 2002 | Shulgold, Marc | COPYRIGHT 2002 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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