Coates Opera House
The Coates Opera House was a prominent performing arts venue and cultural landmark in Kansas City, Missouri[1] from its founding in 1870 to its destruction in a fire in 1901.[2] It was built by Kersey Coates, a local hotelier. The House was the first legitimate theater in Kansas City.[3]
Heart and Sword, starring Walker Whiteside and Leilia Wolstan was the last performance in the theatre. [4]
Playwright and actor John A. Stevens managed the opera house for the 1871-72 and 1872-73 seasons (its second and third seasons).
Notes
- ↑ Snell and Kelley, pg. 17, citing Albrecht, pgs. 2-6
- ↑ New York Times: KANSAS CITY THEATRE BURNED.; Coates Opera House a Complete Loss -- "L'Aiglon" Was Booked for Monday.
- ↑ Bygone Theaters: Coates Opera House
- ↑ "Last Night at the Opera". Kansas City Public Library. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
- National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era (2004). Mark A. Snell, Bruce C. Kelley (Eds.), ed. Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1538-6.
- Albrecht, Theodore (May 1992). "Music in Kansas City Before the Civil War". Mid-West Notebook. 1 (1).
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