Colorado Ballet
Colorado Ballet is Denver’s leading ballet-production company. Founded in 1951 by Freidann Parker and Lillian Covillo, the organization now encompasses a thirty-one-member professional performing company, a studio company, an academy for advanced…
Colorado Poetry
Colorado Symphony
The Colorado Symphony is Denver’s main orchestra and one of the few major orchestras in the Rocky Mountain region. The organization traces its roots to the Denver Symphony, which was established in 1934 under Horace Tureman and became fully professional…
Henrietta “Nettie” Bromwell
Mari Sandoz
Opera Colorado
Opera Colorado started in the early 1980s as Denver’s main opera-production company. Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Nathaniel Merrill and Louise Sherman, the company performed at the Denver Performing Arts Complex’s Boettcher Concert Hall before…