Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)

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Sign in room surrounded by wooden chairs, reading: ''Central City Opera House Assn. Presents Twenty-Fourth Annual Opera Festival, July 2-July 30, 1955, Direct from London, England, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Sir William Gilbert's and Sir Arthur Sullivan's Immortal Operas The Mikado, The Yeoman of the Guard, Trial by Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, Musical Director IsidoreGodfrey, Assistant Musical Director and Chorus Master William Cox-Ife, Director of Productions Robert Gibson.''

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Sign on outside wall of a building next to a door, reading ''Central City Opera House Assn. Presents Twenty-Sixth Annual Opera Festival, June 29th through July 27, 1957, The Immortal Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi and The Gypsy Baron, A Viennese Comedy by Johann Strauss, Both Productions Designed and Directed by Dr. Elemer Nagy, Musical Director and Conductor Mr. Emerson Buckley, Associate Conductor Mr. Walter Taussig, Chorus Master Mr. Roger Dexter Fee.''

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Man standing by billboard for the 1957 production of 'Separate Tables,' reading ''Direct from New York, settings by Michael Weight, lighting and supervision by Paul Morrison, produced by Robert Whitehead by arrangement with Stephen Mitchell, The remarkable New York cast includes William Podmore, Catherine Proctor, Michael Lipton, Valerie Cardew, Helena Carroll, Georgia Harvy.'' Another partially obscured billboard listing more names appears to the right.

Abstract Billboard for the 1958 opera festival that reads: ''The operas will be sung in English by a distinguished New York cast including John Alexander, Robert Barry, Joan Carroll, Laura Castellano, Madelaine Chambers, Jon Crain, Emilia Cundari, John Druary, Paul Franke, Walter Fredericks, Frank Guarrera. Clifford Harvout, Osie Hawkins, Lois Hunt, Gloria Lind, Arthur Malet, Calvin Marsh, Hija Novich, Hugh Thompson, Theodore Uppman, Helen Yanni, Cecilia Ward, Prima Ballerina Micheline Bardin, with a...

Abstract Man standing by billboard the 1956 Central City Opera Festival reading ''The Operas Will Be Sung in English by a Distinguished New York'' then listing ''Lucine Amara, Frances Bible, Walter Cassel, Jon Crain, Lawrence Davidson, John Druary, Joseph Folmer, Howard Fried, Leyna Gabriele, Frank Guarrera, Clifford Harvuot, Beatrice Krebs, Martha Lipton, Cornell MacNeil, Mariquita Moll, Alan Smith, Norman Treigle, Willabelle Underwood, Richard Wentworth, Dolores Wilson, With a Remarkable Chorus...

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Walter Cassel and Dolores Wilson portray Horace and Baby Doe Tabor in the wedding celebration scene of a production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Clifford Harvuot (front and left of center with mustache) appears as Horace Tabor, with Mary McMurray (Augusta Tabor) and Osie Hawkins (footman), in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Chester Ludgin poses for a publicity photograph. Ludgin appeared as Horace Tabor in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe," performed in the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Dolores Wilson poses for a publicity portrait. Wilson appeared as 'Baby Doe' in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe," performed at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Dolores Wilson performs in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe.''