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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Alwin Nikolais

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Alwin Nikolais, a dance coreographer and composer who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Lillian Cushing, 1953

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Identifier: M123.03.0042.0004.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Lillian Cushing in a garden; choreographer with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1953

Mattlyn Gavers

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Identifier: M123.03.0046.0012.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Mattlyn Gauers, the ballet mistress for the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Raymond Smith

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Identifier: M123.03.0062.0004.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Raymond Smith, a square dance caller who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

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