‘Ballad of Baby Doe’: American history told in entertaining opera

‘Ballad of Baby Doe’: American history told in entertaining opera

Opera is known for its colorful characters, and the American West in the 19th century even more so, but few will outdo “The Legend of Baby Doe.”

Colorado-based 'Ballad of Baby Doe' a must-see for opera lovers

Try to get tickets to Central City Opera’s current production of the Ballad of Baby Doe—the story of the rise and fall of Colorado’s Horace Tabor and his wife, Elizabeth McCourt (“Baby”) Doe. It was just a year ago when, here in Complete Colorado, I panned Central City’s weird erotic/homo-erotic production of The Barber of Seville. But I also observed that it was the first disappointing production of a traditional opera I’d seen at Central City.…