Colorado Ballet

Nutcracker Tickets in Denver

Nov 27

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 1:00 pm

Nov 27

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 6:30 pm

Nov 28

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 1:00 pm

Nov 28

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 6:30 pm

Dec 4

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 1:00 pm

Dec 5

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 1:00 pm

Dec 5

Colorado Ballet

The Nutcracker Ballet

Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex | 6:30 pm

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Colorado Ballet performs The Nutcracker at the Ellie Caulking Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex in Denver, CO.

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

The Ellie Caulkins Opera House is located in Denver, Colorado as part of the large Denver Performing Arts Complex. It seats 2,225. The Caulkins family pledged $7 million towards the enhancement of the lyric opera house and adjacent public spaces which were constructed inside of the Newton Auditorium.

The Auditorium became the de facto opera house for Denver, and the most enduring. For more than 75 years, until the 1980s and 1990s when other halls opened in an adjoining complex, the Auditorium hosted almost all visiting opera companies and opera concerts, as well as local opera productions.

In 1955 the Auditorium was closed and renovation was begun to make the grand old house a modern theatre. In September 1956, the project was completed and the seating capacity was decreased to 2,240.

In the 1980s other theaters were constructed next to the Auditorium, including Boettcher Concert Hall, Bonfils Theatre Complex and the Denver Center Theatre, to which the Seawell Ballroom was added in the 1990s (these now make up the Denver Performing Arts Complex). The Auditorium arena received another makeover in the early 1990s when the Temple Hoyne Buell Theater was built into it. This theater was a reincarnation of the Municipal Auditorium’s old theater and basketball and wrestling arena.

In 1992, after the construction of the Buell Theatre, the facade of the Municipal Auditorium was renovated and the seating capacity became 2,065. The Auditorium was renamed Quigg Newton Denver Municipal Auditorium in 2002.

Colorado Ballet

Colorado Ballet encompasses a 31-member professional performing ballet company, a studio company for advanced dance students, an Academy, and an education and outreach department. Based in downtown Denver, Colorado, Colorado Ballet serves more than 125,000 patrons each year.

The professional company performs primarily at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex and one show each year at the Robert and Judi Newman Center for Performing Arts at the University of Denver. Colorado Ballet performs classical ballets and contemporary dance works. The Colorado Ballet Orchestra performs with the Company at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, either at three or four productions a year.

With an annual operating budget exceeding $7.8 million, the company employs more than 150 people on either a full-time or part-time basis during the year.

Colorado Ballet received the 2009 Colorado Masterpieces Award. As part of the award, Colorado Ballet toured Colorado in the 2009–2010 season as a part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius initiative, funded by the Colorado Council on the Arts.

Colorado Ballet has performed at the Vail International Dance Festival in 2011, 2015 and 2017.

In 2013, Colorado Ballet purchased a building in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. The company moved to its new location in August 2014.

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