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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 674 Collections and/or Records:

Frances Maddux, 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0015.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Frances Maddux, a singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1940

Frank Guarrera

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00002
Abstract

Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972.

Dates: 1958-1966

Frank Guarrera, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00003
Abstract

Autographed portrait of Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972.

Dates: 1961

Frank Guarrera

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00004
Abstract

Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972.

Dates: 1958-1966

Frank Guarrera

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00005
Abstract

Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972.

Dates: 1958-1966

Frank Guarrera, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00007
Abstract

Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972.

Dates: 1959

Frank Guarrera in ''Tosca'', 1956

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00001
Abstract

Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972, appears in the opera ''Tosca.''

Dates: 1956

Frank Guarrera with his Wife

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0010.00006
Abstract

Frank Guarrera, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1956 season in 'Tosca', 1957 in 'Rigoletto', 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' in 1959, 1960 in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and in 'Falstaff' in 1972, with his wife.

Dates: 1958-1966

Frederick Jagel

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0017.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Frederick Jagel, a tenor singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Frederick Jagel

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0017.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Frederick Jagel, a tenor singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

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