Central City Opera

UPDATE: We EXCEEDED our Colorado Gives Day goal! Thank you to all those who participated and made a gift to this campaign!

Have You Heard? Colorado Gives Day Season Has Begun! 

Your gift to Central City Opera will be multiplied in so many ways this Colorado Gives Day season! Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of a statewide movement to make a big impact!

Thanks to the support of a generous anonymous donor who has provided a challenge grant, we have a huge fundraising opportunity this year! Your gift to Central City Opera made through the Colorado Gives Day website will be MATCHED 1:1 up to $100,000! Your impact this giving season will be more than doubled instantly. We need your help to reach the full potential of this match! 

Learn about one of our incredible new programs here: 

ABOUT CENTRAL CITY OPERA

Founded in 1932, Central City Opera (CCO) is the fifth oldest professional opera company in the country and is world-renowned for its exquisite productions, competitive and robust young artist training program, and creative education and community engagement activities. The summer festival takes place at 8,500 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountain town of Central City, only 35 miles west of Denver, where the company owns and maintains 27 Victorian-era properties, including the intimate 550-seat jewel box opera house built in 1878.

We use the power of the arts and historic preservation to enhance lives and communities. With ticket revenue accounting for only 15% of our annual budget, we rely on the generosity of patrons like YOU! Donations support our Summer Festival, young artists training, maintenance of our historic properties, and educational programs around CO.

MISSION

To enrich the lives and communities of those we serve and to provide a welcoming, inclusive environment of beauty and meaning by:

• Creating exceptional opera and musical theater
• Delivering engaging artistic and educational programs to diverse communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region
• Celebrating and embracing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in all facets of the organization
• Preserving and protecting the historic opera house and other properties entrusted to Central City Opera
• Cultivating and supporting emerging opera singers and performing arts professionals through world-class training programs

Testimonials

"This organization means a great deal to me, and I will continue to sing its praises, both literally and figuratively. I will also continue to contribute to it financially, both out of gratitude and in the hope that the young artists of today might have the chance to become the leading artists of tomorrow." - Emily Pulley, soprano

"This is summer opera at its most appealing." - The Denver Post

"The Central City Opera only knows one way to do things … and that's the right way. " - The Gazette, Colorado Springs