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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 2233 Collections and/or Records:

Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0009.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0009.00006
Abstract

Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0009.00007
Abstract

Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Brooks McCormack with Sir Toby the Chimpanzee

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0009.00008
Abstract

Informal portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera and the Chicago Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", with Sir Toby the chimpanzee from the Cincinnati Zoo.

Dates: 1930-1969

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00009
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie sits on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00010
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00011
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00012
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00013
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00022
Abstract

Photograph of unknown Central City affiliates, president of the Central City Opera House Association, Frank Ricketson Jr. (back center), and actors Albert Salmi (left) and Peggy Ann Garner (holding flowers) on a outdoor stage.

Dates: 1955

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