A PHANTOM NO MORE $31 MILLION RENOVATION TO BEGIN ON LANDMARK OPERA HOUSE

The Boston Globe;  November 13, 2002 ;   Maureen Dezell, Globe Staff;   777 words ...Standing at the head of the Opera House grand stairway yesterday, an upbeat...theater. "We can breathe new life into the Opera House, Downtown Crossing, and the arts scene...administrators, city officials, and Opera House neighbors gathered in the faded French...

A PLACE WHERE ART AND CIVICS MEET CLAREMONT WINS RECOGNITION FOR...

The Boston Globe;  October 10, 1999 ;   D. Quincy Whitney, Globe Correspondent;   787 words ......of "Hello, Dolly!" at the Claremont Opera House, the community, in a sense, returns...Claremont City Hall since 1897, the opera house is a symbol of cultural endurance, and...restoration of the historic Claremont Opera House. The first building located on the present...

A place where art and civics meet > Claremont wins recognition for...

The Boston Globe;  October 10, 1999 ;   D. Quincy Whitney, Globe Correspondent;   787 words ......of "Hello, Dolly!" at the Claremont Opera House, the community, in a sense, returns...Claremont City Hall since 1897, the opera house is a symbol of cultural endurance, and...restoration of the historic Claremont Opera House. The first building located on the present...

Opera house documentary lifts lid on backstage crisis

The Independent - London;  December 18, 1995 ;   Rebecca Fowler;   551 words ...The Royal Opera House has joined the growing list of British...camera crew followed the life of the Opera House for a year, through the 1993-94 season...series to be shown from next month. Opera house officials had anticipated a celebration...

Have you seen the Opera House?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 24, 2000 ;   Ford, Bob;   748 words ...SYDNEY, Australia _ Have you seen the Opera House? Australians don't really want to know how...Olympics are treating you. Have you seen the Opera House? Oh, yeah. We've seen the Opera House. And never, ever ... the opera house. But...

MAYOR FIGHTING EFFORT TO RENAME OPERA HOUSE

The Boston Globe;  August 4, 2005 ;   Maureen Dezell, Globe Staff;   515 words ......of Citizens Bank on Boston's historic Opera House. Four months after the bank and Clear...Washington Street landmark, it remains the Opera House a name the theater is likely to keep...announced, Menino and his point man in the Opera House project, Boston Redevelopment Authority...

OPERA HOUSE JITTERS SEATTLE CENTER LOOKS AT SOME UNSETTLING FIGURES TO...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 14, 1996 ;   Hackett, Regina;   787 words ......years of faithful service, the Seattle Opera House is ready to present its bill. Nobody...amenities. ``The city is committed to the Opera House upgrades,'' says Councilman Tom Weeks...According to him, the high-end estimate of Opera House costs is $40 million, which is, according...

The opera has left the building: INB Performing Arts Center squeezes term...

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA);  August 20, 2006 ;     787 words ......Kershner Aug. 20--This May, the Spokane Opera House officially changed its name to the INB...commercialism objections. It's because the name Opera House has had a long and fascinating history...entire West. In fact, the very term Opera House spoke volumes about the cultural ...

SECRET'S OUT ABOUT OLD OPERA HOUSE

Dayton Daily News;  September 28, 2003 ;   Andrew McGinn Cox News Service;   485 words ......the police station. It was the mayor's office. So when was the Jamestown Opera House an opera house? Seventy years ago. Most in Jamestown have never seen the opera house inside the Opera House on the upper level. Ted Sesslar, who's been cutting...

Theater group sings the praises of vacant Ansonia Opera House

New Haven Register;  August 22, 2004 ;   Sarah W Walker;   750 words ...Pity the poor Ansonia Opera House. There's no money to fix up the...renovations to the more famous opera house in Derby, the Sterling, is a bigger...sights on fixing up the Ansonia Opera House. "I'd like to bring entertainment...

OPERA HOUSE HUMMING LAST YEAR WAS THE BEST FOR REVENUE SINCE THE STOUGHTON...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  January 18, 2007 ;     770 words ......after years of renovation, the Stoughton Opera House has struggled to make a profit. But...successful year in 2006, heralding what opera house leaders hope will be a trend for the...said Tom Novak, volunteer and Stoughton Opera House board member. We want to make sure the...

Stoughton Opera House humming.

WI State Journal (Madison, WI);  January 18, 2007 ;     728 words ......after years of renovation, the Stoughton Opera House has struggled to make a profit. But...successful year in 2006, heralding what opera house leaders hope will be a trend for the...said Tom Novak, volunteer and Stoughton Opera House board member. We want to make sure the...

Opera house thrives with local support

The Boston Globe;  December 27, 2006 ;   Kari J. Bodnarchuk;   787 words ...BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine - The Opera House of Boothbay Harbor stands on the north...shipwrights in just 70 days. The Pythian Opera House, as it was then called, has a grand...formed a nonprofit group called the Opera House of Boothbay Harbor to save the building...

Retiree helped save historic Jamestown opera house

Dayton Daily News;  May 25, 2006 ;     428 words ......retirement helped save the Jamestown Opera House. "Retirement allowed me to join other...in 1993 and 1995, so preserving the opera house has become a passion for many of us in the community." She'd grown up hearing opera house stories, especially from her mother...

SAVING THE OPERA HOUSE

The Boston Globe;  January 8, 2001 ;     380 words ......Washington Street, the white face of the Opera House is an architectural surprise. Inside...glittering night at the theater. Sadly, the Opera House is the victim of two kinds of decay...restoration. Closed since 1991, the Opera House is marred by fallen plaster, broken...