Skip to main content

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:

Shirley Booth and Friends

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00004
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 an unidentified group.

Dates: 1930-1969

Shirley Booth and Friends

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00006
Abstract

Shirley Booth (front, and third from 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, with an unidentified group.

Dates: 1930-1969

Shirley Booth and Friends

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00008
Abstract

Shirley Booth (center), 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 two unidentified individuals.

Dates: 1930-1969

Shirley Booth in ''The Time of the Cuckoo'', 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00007
Abstract

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, in the opera ''The Time of the Cuckoo.''

Dates: 1953

Shirley Booth Standing

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00002
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 with Theater Chairs

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0011.00009
Abstract

Shirley Booth (left), 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

Somer Alberg

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0006.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Somer Alberg; actor affiliated with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1940-1969

Somer Alberg

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0006.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Somer Alberg; actor affiliated with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1940-1969

Somer Alberg

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0006.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Somer Alberg; actor affiliated with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1940-1969

Stanley Carlson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0004.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Stanley Carlson, a bass-baritone opera singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Filtered By

  • Subject: Actors X
  • Subject: Central City (Colo.) X
  • Subject: Opera X

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 879
Colorado 873
Singers 675
Theater 199
Dancers 5