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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:

Thomas Lawlor in 'The Mikado'

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0019.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Lawlor, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera with the D'Oyly Carte Opera, appears here in the productin of 'The Mikado."

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Lawlor in ''The Yeoman of the Guard''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0019.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Lawlor, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera withe the D'Oyly Carte Opera, appears as the Liutenant of the Tower in the opera ''The Yeoman of the Guard.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Thomas Palmer, 1966

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0020.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Palmer, a baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera as an associate of Horace Tabor's in 'The Ballad of Baby Doe' in 1966 and as Marcello in 'La Boheme' in 1970.

Dates: 1966

Thomas Palmer, 1966

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0020.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Palmer, a baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera as an associate of Horace Tabor's in 'The Ballad of Baby Doe' in 1966 and as Marcello in 'La Boheme' in 1970.

Dates: 1966

Thomas Paul, 1963

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0021.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Paul, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Commendatore in the 1963 production of 'Don Giovanni' and as Jack Spaniard in the 1964 premiere of 'The Lady from Colorado.'

Dates: 1963

Thomas Paul, 1963

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0021.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Paul, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Commendatore in the 1963 production of 'Don Giovanni' and as Jack Spaniard in the 1964 premiere of 'The Lady from Colorado.'

Dates: 1963

Thomas Paul, 1963

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0021.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Paul, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Commendatore in the 1963 production of 'Don Giovanni' and as Jack Spaniard in the 1964 premiere of 'The Lady from Colorado.'

Dates: 1963

Thomas Paul, 1963

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0058.0021.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Thomas Paul, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Commendatore in the 1963 production of 'Don Giovanni' and as Jack Spaniard in the 1964 premiere of 'The Lady from Colorado.'

Dates: 1963

Unidentified Woman on a Velvet Bed

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0067.0004.00013
Abstract

Portrait of Unidentified woman who performed with the Central City Opera on a large velvet bed.

Dates: 1930-1969

Valerie Masterson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0002.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Valerie Masterson, a soprano singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during th 1968 season. Masterson performed as Yum-Yum in 'The Mikado,' as Elsie Maynard in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Mabel in 'the Pirates of Penzance.'

Dates: 1930-1969

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