According to Fred Conboy, President of the Board of Directors for the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, there is a lot to see in this little burgh besides the open desert. “When guests ...

LAS VEGAS — Marta Becket, a dancer and artist who spent decades presenting one-woman shows at a remote Mojave Desert hall that she made famous as the Amargosa Opera House, has died. Becket died Monday ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Marta Becket, a dancer and artist who spent decades presenting one-woman shows at a remote Mojave Desert hall that she made famous as the Amargosa Opera House, has died. Becket died ...

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The remnants of Tropical Storm Hilary didn’t spare the landmark opera house and hotel just outside Death Valley National Park. It was a historic storm for the historic Amargosa Opera House and Hotel.

In 1967 a flat tire led dancer and artist Marta Becket to Death Valley, an opera house — and her life's work. Today, she no longer dances, but... Dancer, Artist Enlivens Death Valley Junction ...

For more than four decades, Marta Becket danced in the desert. Becket, who died in 2017, operated the quirky Amargosa Opera House on the edge of Death Valley, where she performed classical ballet and ...

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — When the theater lights dim and the audience is gone, Marta Becket slips off her ballet shoes and reviews her work. She eases her 77-year-old body into a creaky, old ...

MARTA BECKET'S PALACE: You've heard of the famous desert ballerina and her magical opera house, the painted room that sits in the middle of a vast stretch of Death Valley. We've swooned -- only word ...