Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
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.
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Albert Salmi and Peggy Ann Garner in 'Bus Stop', 1955
Albert Salmi as Bo Decker holds Peggy Ann Garner as Cherie in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'
Albert Salmi in 'Bus Stop', 1955
Photograph of Albert Salmir, an actor who performed as Bo Decker in the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop,' watering a tree with a bottle of milk.
Alice Yourman in 'The Miracle Worker', 1961
Black and white photograph of Alice Yourman as Aunt Ev in a scene in the 1961 Central City Opera Festival production of the theater piece 'The Miracle Worker.'
Anna Kaskas in ''Il Trovatore''
Portrait of Anna Kaskas, a contralto singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1939 production of "The Yeoman of the Guard" and the 1941 production of "Orfeo et Eurdice.", appears in the Metropolitan Opera production as Azucena in the opera ''Il Travatore.''
Arthur Margetson, 1948
Portrait of Arthur Margetson, an actor who performed with the Central City Opera as Almady in the 1948 production of 'The Plays The Thing.'
Arthur Penn for 'The Miracle Worker', 1961
Black and white photograph of Arthur Penn the director of the 1961 Central City Opera Festival production of the theater piece 'The Miracle Worker.'
Arthur Penn for 'The Miracle Worker', 1961
Black and white photograph of Arthur Penn the director of the 1961 Central City Opera Festival production of the theater piece 'The Miracle Worker.'
''Ballad of Baby Doe'', between 1956-1959
Martha Lipton (left), Walter Cassel (center), and Dolores Wilson (right) appear in the Central City Opera premiere production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe.''
''Ballad of Baby Doe'', between 1956-1959
Unidentified performers appear in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe.''
''Ballad of Baby Doe'', between 1956-1959
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