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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 880 Collections and/or Records:

Jean Gibbons Head Shot

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0046.0017.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Jean Gibbons, a soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1952 season as Musetta in "La Boheme" and the Countess in "The Marriage of Figaro."

Dates: 1930-1969

Jean Gibbons in an Evening Gown

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0046.0017.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Jean Gibbons, a soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1952 season as Musetta in "La Boheme" and the Countess in "The Marriage of Figaro."

Dates: 1930-1969

Jean Gibbons Portrait

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0046.0017.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Jean Gibbons, a soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1952 season as Musetta in "La Boheme" and the Countess in "The Marriage of Figaro."

Dates: 1930-1969

Jean Madeira

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0016.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Jean Madeira, a contralto singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Jean Madeira Cooking

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0016.00002
Abstract

Jean Madeira, a contralto singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera, cooking in her kitchen.

Dates: 1930-1969

Jerome Hines

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0006.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Jerome Hines, a basso singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Jerome Hines Head Shot

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0006.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Jerome Hines, a basso singer who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of " The Abduction from Seraglio" and the 1948 production "The Tales of Hoffman."

Dates: 1930-1969

Jerome Hines in ''The Abduction from Seraglio'', 1946

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0006.00003
Abstract

Jerome Hines, a basso singer who performed with the Central City Opera in 1946, appears as Osmin in the opera ''Abduction from Seraglio.''

Dates: 1946

Jerome Hines in "The Tales of Hoffman", 1948

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0006.00002
Abstract

Jerome Hines, a basso singer who performed with the Central City Opera, appears in the 1948 production of "The Tales of Hoffman."

Dates: 1948

Jim Fleetwood

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0045.0003.00001
Abstract

Autographed portrait of Jim Fleetwood, performer who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

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