Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Tourism Star Award Recipient — 2005
The new $92 million, 2,268-seat Ellie Caulkins Opera House (affectionately known as "The Ellie") opened in Sept. 2005, completing the Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC) by providing a first-class, natural acoustical home for opera, ballet and chorales. This state-of-the-art lyric opera house has come to life inside the walls of the historic 1908 Newton Auditorium and offers beautiful lobbies, grand staircases and four levels of seating with unobstructed sightlines and views. The Ellie serves as the "crown jewel" of DPAC, the largest arts complex in the world under one roof featuring 10 performance spaces connected by an 80-foot tall glass roof. The Ellie has already garnered much national press and is being declared one of the finest acoustic halls in the nation.
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