Calling all Opera aficionados! Stop by and see why there is much to enjoy during your visit to the El Paso Opera where everyone wants you to make the most of your opera experience of the engaging sounds of leitmotif, aria and cadenzas. You will find breathtaking and inspiring performances of classic works and nuanced ensembles by familiar and up and coming composers. The diverting mission of El Paso Opera is to bring professional opera productions that are understandable, accessible, and enjoyable to all residents, to sponsor educational programs that will introduce both youth and adult populations to the world of great vocal music. Here you will recognize that opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in the imagination.
Explore the otherworldly history at the Concordia Cemetery. This historic graveyard dates to 1856 and is the final resting place for gunfighter John Wesley Hardin, Buffalo Soldiers, Texas Rangers, Civil War Veterans, early Mormon pioneers, and other civic leaders. Ghost tours and history reenactments are scheduled regularly here.
With remarkably avid interest, step into 14,000 years of prehistory in the El Paso area, the greater Southwest, and northern Mexico at The El Paso Museum of Archaeology where you will see dioramas and exhibits of American Indian lives and their material culture, from the Paleoindian hunters of the Ice Age to their modern descendants. Museum exhibits are periodically changed to reflect the scope of the collections and the interests of the community and are displayed in the auditorium and the North Gallery which also houses explore-able drawers of artifacts from across the US. Walk nature trails on their 15 acres with more than 250 varieties of Chihuahuan Desert native plants, outdoor exhibits and an Indian Garden. Free tours available.