This Nevada Opera House Has Been Hosting Performers For Well Over A Century

Flames tore through this stage twice, and somehow the curtain always rose again. That grit turned a remote mountain outpost into one of Nevada’s liveliest stops for touring legends.

Mark Twain traded jokes from this platform, and legendary Shakespearean actors owned it after him. A heavyweight boxing champion even trained here before his biggest fight.

Believe it or not, bears once brawled on this floor, and roller skates replaced them decades later. History here gets stranger and better the deeper you dig…

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