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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 1043 Collections and/or Records:

Frank (Francesco) Valentino

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0064.0003.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Frank ( Francesco) Valentino, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in six productions between 1946-1954. Valentino performed as Giorgio Germont in 'La traviata,' as Sharpless in 'Madame Butterfly,' the Husband in 'Amelia Goes to the Ball,' Count Almaviva in 'the Marriage of Figaro,' Valentin in 'Faust,' and also as the Music teacher in 'Airadne auf Naxos.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Frank (Francesco) Valentino

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0064.0003.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Frank ( Francesco) Valentino, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in six productions between 1946-1954. Valentino performed as Giorgio Germont in 'La traviata,' as Sharpless in 'Madame Butterfly,' the Husband in 'Amelia Goes to the Ball,' Count Almaviva in 'the Marriage of Figaro,' Valentin in 'Faust,' and also as the Music teacher in 'Airadne auf Naxos.'

Dates: 1930-1969

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 as Horace Tabor in Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00014
Abstract

Frank Guarrera poses for a publicity portrait. Guarrera appeared as Horace Tabor in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe,'' performed at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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

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