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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 761 Collections and/or Records:

Frank St. Leger in Three Piece Suit

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0013.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Frank St. Leger, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Frank St. Leger Mounted Portrait

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0013.00008
Abstract

Portrait of Frank St. Leger, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Frank St. Leger Sitting

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0013.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Frank St. Leger, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Frank St. Leger with Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0013.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Frank St. Leger (right), a music director and conductor who worked with the Central City Opera, with Emerson Buckley (left).

Dates: 1930-1969

Geatano Merola

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0010.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Gaetano Merola, the founder and director of the San Francisco Opera who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Geatano Merola

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0010.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Gaetano Merola, the founder and director of the San Francisco Opera who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Geatano Merola and Bidu Sayao

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0010.00003
Abstract

Gaetano Merola, the founder and director of the San Francisco Opera who worked with the Central City Opera, with Bidu Sayao.

Dates: 1930-1969

Geatano Merola Conducting Rehearsal, 1949

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0010.00004
Abstract

Gaetano Merola, the founder and director of the San Francisco Opera who worked with the Central City Opera, with Bidu Sayao.

Dates: 1949

Gene Bullard, 1965

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0015.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Gene Bullard, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1965

Gene Bullard, 1965

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0015.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Gene Bullard, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera, in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1965

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