Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
Organization
Biography
__ __ __Work cat.: The glory that was gold, 1992: t.p. (Central City Opera House) p. vii (built in 1878 in Central City, Colo.)
Biography
Central City Opera House is given to the University of Denver by the McFarlane family in 1932 (Ida Kruse McFarlane, Professor of English at DU, good friends with Anne Evans). The CCOHA was administered as a non-profit corporation during this time.
Sources
Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 126.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Box 366: Memorabilia, 1932-2004
File — Box M123.0366: Series M123.10 [Barcode: U186024717255]
Identifier: M123.10.0366
Abstract
These unique items are wrapped in tissue paper or stored in photo sleeves with item numbers written on objects tags or on the photo sleeves. The item numbers reflect the original box and folder the items were originally in before being removed for separate storage.
Dates:
1932-2004
Flower Girls, 1932-2015
Series
Identifier: M123.09
Abstract
The Flower Girls were a fundraising tradition started by Anne Evans with the first Central City Opera Festival season in 1932. Debutantes from prominent Denver families would be selected by a "secret committee" to act as hostesses of the opera's opening nights, handing out nosegay bouquets to opera-goers to throw onstage as the permiere performance curtain closed.
The materials in the first three boxes of this series were put together by Barbara Ferguson, who has been involved...
Dates:
1932-2015
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