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:
Brooks McCormack in ''Madame Butterfly''
Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as Lt. Pinkerton in the opera ''Madame Butterfly.''
Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''
Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''
Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''
Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''
Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''
Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''
Brooks McCormack in ''Rigoletto''
Portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", appears as the Duke in the opera ''Rigoletto.''
Brooks McCormack with Sir Toby the Chimpanzee
Informal portrait of Brooks McCormack, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera and the Chicago Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1946 production of "La Traviata" and the 1950 production of "Madame Butterfly", with Sir Toby the chimpanzee from the Cincinnati Zoo.
Burgess Meredith
Portrait of Burgess Meredith, a director and producer who worked with the Central City Opera, directing the opera ''A Thurber Carnival.''
Burgess Meredith
Portrait of Burgess Meredith, a director and producer who worked with the Central City Opera, directing the opera ''A Thurber Carnival.''
'Bus Stop', 1955
Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie sits on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'
'Bus Stop', 1955
Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'
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