Desc: The Face on the Barroom Floor: The Poem, the Place, the Opera: Directed by Lawrence Kraman. With Henry Mollicone, Catherine O'Rourke, Patrick Hearn, Nathan Milholin. The story of a strange ballad poem written in 1887 which became a unusual portrait on the barroom floor in a quaint former boomtown in Colorado and became the inspiration for one of the most performed modern American operas in history