The Council operates the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, an annual competition in singing. She has also served as the president of Metropolitan Opera's National Council, and chaired Metropolitan Opera's National Patron Program. The association runs the Metropolitan Opera House (known as the Met) at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Shen Yun’s works reflect this rich spiritual heritage. Ĭaulkins has served on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera Association in New York City. Shen Yun in Denver - Jan 2022, 2023 at The Ellie Caulkins Opera House at DPAC Watch Trailers A Heavenly Gift The culture of ancient China was divinely inspired. In 2006, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (then the Governor of Colorado) awarded Caulkins a Culture Legacy Award for her service to the city. The organization later named her as an honorary lifetime chair. Caulkins served as the chair of Opera Colorado's Board of Directors over multiple terms. Two years after its founding, Friends of Opera's efforts merged into Opera Colorado, an opera company that facilitates performances and promotes education and outreach. Friends of Opera worked to bring more performances of opera to the Denver metropolitan area. In 1980, Caulkins and Dillon co-founded Friends of Opera as a volunteer group. The next year, the University of Colorado awarded her an honorary doctorate of humane letters. In 2010, the university awarded her their Alumni Recognition Award. During her studies, she took a course titled Opera as Literature taught by English professor Dick Dillon, which sparked her long-term interest in opera. Caulkins earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Colorado Denver in 1977 after graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After marrying her husband, George Caulkins, she moved to Colorado. Born in 1937, Caulkins graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Orange, New Jersey in 1954.
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