Events

Historic LoDo: Greg Carpenter, General Director of Opera Colorado, and the stars and artistic team of The Tales of Hoffmann will lead an interactive discussion about this upcoming production of Offenbach’s vivid fantasy inspired by the tales of the German Romantic poet E.T.A. Hoffmann.

Colfax Avenue: This event has been cancelled due to snow.  Alliance Française de Denver joins us in presenting Dorothy Stapleton, wife to the former American Ambassador in Paris, as she discusses and signs her new book Elegant Entertaining: Seasonal Recipes from the American Ambassador’s Residence in Paris ($45.00 Rizzoli), written with Philippe Excoffier, who has been the master chef to the American Ambassadors for nearly a decade. In the heart of Paris’s exclusive Faubourg St. Honoré neighborhood, the magnificent nineteenth-century residence of the American ambassador to France is the center of Franco-American relations and the site of elegant entertaining. Nearly every day of the year, master chef Philippe Excoffier prepares dazzling meals and parties for foreign dignitaries, French friends of America, and Americans in Paris. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Stapleton and Excoffier share forty of their favorite recipes. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com