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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 2340 Collections and/or Records:

Virginia Haskins in Evening Gown and Shawl

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0048.0012.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia Haskins, a coloratura soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1951 season as Galatea in "The Beautifil Galatea" and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet."

Dates: 1930-1969

Virginia Haskins in ''The Marriage of Figaro''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0048.0012.00007
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia Haskins, a coloratura soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1951 season as Galatea in "The Beautifil Galatea" and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", appears as Susanna in the opera ''The Marriage of Figaro''

Dates: 1930-1969

Virginia Haskins in ''The Marriage of Figaro''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0048.0012.00008
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia Haskins, a coloratura soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1951 season as Galatea in "The Beautifil Galatea" and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", appears as Susanna in the opera ''The Marriage of Figaro''

Dates: 1930-1969

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters in an Unidentified Production, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron", appears in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1957

W. Somerset Maugham, 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0003.00001
Abstract

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.

Dates: 1940

W. Somerset Maugham

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0003.00002
Abstract

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.

Dates: 1930-1969

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