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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 881 Collections and/or Records:

Sam Jaffe in ''A Doll's House'', 1937

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0018.00003
Abstract

Sam Jaffe, an actor who performed with the Central City Opera, appears in the 1937 opera ''A Doll's House.''

Dates: 1937

Sandor Szabo, 1964

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0020.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Sandor Szabo, an actor who performed with the Central City opera.

Dates: 1964

Sandra Darling, 1965

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0043.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Sandra Darling, a coloratura soprano singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1965

Sandra Darling, 1965

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0043.0005.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Sandra Darling, a coloratura soprano singer fron the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1965

Sheila Barrett, 1937

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0008.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Sheila Barrett, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1937

Sheila Barrett, 1937

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0008.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Sheila Barrett, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera, at the Teller House night club durring the 1937 Central City Festival.

Dates: 1937

Sherman E. Sanders, 1935

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Identifier: M123.03.0061.0002.00001
Abstract

Autographed portrait of Kurt Sherman E. Sanders, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera in the 1935 production 'Central City Night's' in the scene 'A venetian Night's Entertainment.'

Dates: 1935

Shirley Booth

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Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Shirley Booth, an actress who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1953 season in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "The Time of the Cuckoo" and in the production of "Harvey" during the 1971 season.

Dates: 1930-1969

Shirley Booth and Flower Girls

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Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00005
Abstract

Shirley Booth (center, with flowers), an actress who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1953 season in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "The Time of the Cuckoo" and in the production of "Harvey" during the 1971 season, with the Central City Opera House flower girls.

Dates: 1930-1969

Shirley Booth and Friends

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Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00003
Abstract

Shirley Booth (left), an actress who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1953 season in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "The Time of the Cuckoo" and in the production of "Harvey" during the 1971 season, poses with four unidentified individuals.

Dates: 1930-1969

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