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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:

Don Ameche

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0015.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Don Ameche, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera in the 1968 production of "There's a Girl in my Soup."

Dates: 1940-1969

Don Ameche

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0015.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Don Ameche, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera in the 1968 production of "There's a Girl in my Soup."

Dates: 1940-1969

Don Ameche

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0015.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Don Ameche, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera in the 1968 production of "There's a Girl in my Soup."

Dates: 1940-1969

Donald Adams, 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer who worked with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" and the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe."

Dates: 1955-1968

Donald Adams in "H.M.S. Pinafore", 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" , the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe", the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance", and the Mikado in "The Mikado" , performs in costume as Dick Deadeye in the production of "H.M.S. Pinafore."

Dates: 1955-1968

Donald Adams in ''Iolanthe'', 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" , the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe", the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance", and the Mikado in "The Mikado" , performs in costume as the Earl of Mountararat in the production of "Iolanthe."

Dates: 1955-1968

Donald Adams in "The Mikado", 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" , the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe", the Pirate Kinf in "The Pirates of Penzance", and the Mikado in "The Mikado" , performs in costume as the Mikado in "The Mikado."

Dates: 1955-1968

Donald Adams in "The Pirates of Penzance", 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" , the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe", the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance", and the Mikado in "The Mikado" , performs in costume as the Pirate King in the production of "The Pirates of Penzance"

Dates: 1968

Donald T. Carney

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Donald T. Carney; affiliated with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Donna Zimmerman, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0066.0015.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Donna Zimmermann, a child actress who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1961 production 'the Miracle Worker' as Helen Keller, next to the billboard for the show.

Dates: 1961

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