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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 880 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Hayward Head Shot and Negative

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0001.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Hayward, a tenor singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1954 season in the production "Ariadne auf Naxos", "The Lady from Colorado" in 1964, and "Carmen" in 1966.

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Hayward Head Shot from the Metropolitian Opera Association

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0001.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Hayward, a tenor singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1954 season in the production "Ariadne auf Naxos", "The Lady from Colorado" in 1964, and "Carmen" in 1966.

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Hayward in "Ariadne auf Naxos", 1954

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0001.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Hayward, a tenor singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1954 season in the production "Ariadne auf Naxos", "The Lady from Colorado" in 1964, and "Carmen" in 1966.

Dates: 1954

Thomas Lawlor

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0019.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Lawlor, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera withe the D'Oyly Carte Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Lawlor in H.M.S. Pinafore

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Identifier: M123.03.0051.0019.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Lawlor, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera withe the D'Oyly Carte Opera, appears in the production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Lawlor in 'The Mikado'

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0019.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Lawlor, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera with the D'Oyly Carte Opera, appears here in the productin of 'The Mikado."

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Lawlor in ''The Yeoman of the Guard''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0019.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Lawlor, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera withe the D'Oyly Carte Opera, appears as the Liutenant of the Tower in the opera ''The Yeoman of the Guard.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Tibor Kozma at Rehearsal

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Identifier: M123.03.0050.0019.00003
Abstract

Tibor Kozma, a musical director and conductor who worked with the Central City Opera, conducts rehearsals. Irene Kahn at the piano, singing is James Pease (left), Genevieve Warner (center) and Michael Bondon (right).

Dates: 1930-1969

Tibor Kozma at Rehearsal

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0050.0019.00004
Abstract

Tibor Kozma, a musical director and conductor who worked with the Central City Opera, conducts rehearsals. Irene Kahn at the piano, singing is James Pease (left), Genevieve Warner (center) and Michael Bondon (right).

Dates: 1930-1969

Tom Ewell, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0044.0011.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Tom Ewell, an actor who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1959 production of 'The Gazebo."

Dates: 1959

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