Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
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 2416 Collections and/or Records:
Billboard Advertising 1933 Festival, 1933
Billboard for 1933 season reads, "The Central City Opera House, season of 1933, special New York Attraction, 16 Gala Performances, August 5 to 9, 1933. 'The Merry Widow,' with the following all star cast; Miss natalie Hall, Miss Gladys Swarthout, Mr. Richard Bonelli, Mr. Ernest McChesney, continued."
Billboard Advertising 1940 Festival, 1940
Billboard advertising 1940 opera 'The Bartered Bride.' Billboard reads, "The Central City Opera house ninth annual play festival July 6 to 27, 1940. A new and original adaptation in english 'The Bartered Bride' a comic folk opera by Smetana, produced by Mr. Frank St. Leger."
Billboard Advertising 1946 Festival, 1946
Billboard reads, " The Abduction from the Seraglio, Larry Bolton, John Carter, Marilyn Cotlow, Jerome Hines, Felix Knight, Paul Kwartin, Eleanor Steber. La Traviata, John Baker, Laszlo Chabay, William Hargrave, Paul Kwartin, Norma Lee Larkin, Igne Manski, John brooks McCormack, Florence Quartararo, Francesco Valentino, assistant conductor Karl Kritz, Kurt Adler, with a remarkable chorus, ballet and orchestra."
Billboard Advertising 1946 Festival, 1946
Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presents A victory Play festival, July 6th - July 28th 1946. Produced by Frank St. Leger, The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Adadeus Mozart and La Traviata by Guiseppe Verdi, music conducted by Emil Cooper, production staged by Herbert Graf, Production designed by Donald Oenslager. The performances will be sung in English."
Billboard Advertising 1947 Festival, 1947
Billboard reads, " The performances will be sugn in english by a brilliant cast of singers from New York; Fidelio, Lorenzo Alvary, Leslie Chabay, Lois Hunt, Philip Kinsman, Regina Resnik, Kenneth Schon, brian Sulliva. Martha, Larry Bolton, Lawrence Davidson, Frances Greer, Philip Kinsman, James pease, Leopold Simoneau, Claramae Turner, assistant conductor Karl Kritz, Leo Mueller, with a remarkable chorus and orchestra."
Billboard Advertising 1947 Festival, 1947
Billboard reads, " The central City Opera House Assn. presents twelfth annual play festival July 4 through July 26, 1947. Produced by Frank St. Leger 'Fidelio' by Ludwig van Beethoven and 'Martha' by Friedrich von Flotow, conducted by Emil coopera, staged by herbert Graf, designed by Donald Oenslager."
Billboard Advertising 1947 Festival, 1947
Billboard reads, " The central City Opera House Assn. presents twelfth annual play festival Auust 2 through August 27, 1947. Brock Pemberton presents Frank Fay in the Pulitzer Price Play 'Harvey' by mary Chase with Marion Lorne.'
Billboard Advertising 1948 Opera festival, 1948
Billboard Advertising 1948 Play festival, 1948
Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presents 70th anniversary play festival production of Ferenc Molnar's Gayest Comedy, The Play's the Thing, July 31 through August, 1948, starring Louis Calhern with Faye Emerson, Arthur Margetson, Ernest Cossart and the entire New York Cast including Claud Allister, Francis Compton, Richard Hylton."
Billboard Advertising 1948 Play festival, 1948
Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presents thirteenth annual play festival July 2 through July 24, 1948, produced by Frank St. Leger, Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach, conducted by Emil Cooper, Staged by Herbert Graf, designed by Donald Oeslager."
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