Central City Opera House which tells the story of wealthy mine-owner Horace Tabor and his second wife Baby Doe Tabor. It was first performed in 1956. In 2001, it was the first opera company in the United States to produce "Gloriana" of Elizabeth I by Benjamin Britten. Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" was performed by the Central City Opera in 2015. Samuel Ramey and Beverly Sills have performed at the opera house. It was noted by Daniel Rule, who managed the Central City Opera company, that 29 of the performers of the Metropolitan Opera in New York had performed at Central City. The
The Guilty Mother The Guilty Mother The Guilty Mother () subtitled "The Other Tartuffe" is the third play of the "Figaro" trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro". This was the author's last play. It is rarely revived. Like the earlier plays of the trilogy it has been turned into operatic form, but it has not entered the general opera repertoire. The characters of Figaro and his associates were so popular that other dramatists had written sequels to "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro", most notably M-N Delon, who brought out