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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 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Richard Kness

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0050.0015.00001
Abstract

Autographed portrait of Richard Kness, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Richard Kness in an Unidentified Production

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Identifier: M123.03.0050.0015.00002
Abstract

Richard Kness, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera, appears in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1930-1969

Richard Krause

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Identifier: M123.03.0051.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Richard Krause, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Richard Krause

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0005.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Richard Krause, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Richard Wentworth, 1956

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0065.0010.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Richard Wentworth, a bass-baritone singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1956

Rita DeCarlo, 1965

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0043.0008.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Rita DeCarlo, a soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Bertha in the 1965 production of 'The Barber of Seville' and as Mallika is 'Lakme' during the same season.

Dates: 1965

Robert Barry, 1958

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0010.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Robert Barry, tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in the 1957 season as Ottokar in "The Gypsy Baron' and Matteo Borsa in "Rigoletto" and in the 1958 season playing Beppe in the opera ''Pagliocci'' and Don Miguel de Panatellas in the opera ''La Perichole.''

Dates: 1958

Robert Barry, 1958

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0010.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Robert Barry, tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in the 1957 season as Ottokar in "The Gypsy Baron' and Matteo Borsa in "Rigoletto" and in the 1958 season playing Beppe in the opera ''Pagliocci'' and Don Miguel de Panatellas in the opera ''La Perichole.''

Dates: 1958

Robert Moulson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0008.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Robert Moulson, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1970 production of "Of Mice and Men."

Dates: 1930-1969

Robert Moulson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0008.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Robert Moulson, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1970 production of "Of Mice and Men."

Dates: 1930-1969

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