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 2484 Collections and/or Records:
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
Billboard Advertising 1952 Festival, 1952
Billboard for 1952 season reads,"Central City Opera House Assn. twenty-first annual festival August 2 - August 30, 1952 presents Helen Hays in 'Mrs. McThing' a comic fantasy by Mary Chase with Jules Munshin, Enid Markey, Lydia Reed, Paula Trueman, Robert Mariotti, directed by Joseph Buloff, setting and lighting by lester Polakov, costumes by Lucinda Ballard."
Billboard Advertising 1952 Festival, 1952
Billboard for 1952 season reads, " Central City Opera House Assn. presentd seventeenth annual festival June 28 through July 26, 1952. La Boheme by Giocomo Puccini, directed by Frank St. Leger, designed by Donald Oenslager; and the Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, designed and directed by Dr. Elmer Nagy, musical director for both productions Tibor Kozma, assistant director Walter Taussig."
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