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 2340 Collections and/or Records:
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."
Billboard Advertising 1950 Festival, 1950
Billboard for 1950 season reads, " The Central City Opera house Assn. presents fifteenth annual play festival August 5 through August 26, 1960. Maurice Evans in Bernard Shaw's comedy 'The Devil's Disciple' production staged by George Somnes."
Billboard Advertising 1951 Festival, 1951
Billboard for 1951 season reads, " The central City Opera house Assn. presents sixteenth annual play festival August 4 through Sept. 1, 1951 Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne, Grace George in 'The Constant Wife' by W. Somerset Maugham."
Billboard Advertising 1951 Festival, 1951
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