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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 2542 Collections and/or Records:

All American Chorus Members

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00010
Abstract

Complete ensemble of the All American Chorus in front of a dome-capped building.

Dates: 1957

All American Chorus Members Drinking Pepsi

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00015
Abstract

Members of the All American Chorus drinking Pepsi from individual cooler-boxes.

Dates: 1957

All American Chorus Members on a Ship

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00012

All American Chorus Members on a Ship

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00013

All American Chorus Members Performing

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00011
Abstract

Members of the All American Chorus perform in front of a dome-capped building.

Dates: 1957

All American Chorus Members with the Sign Advertising the Show ''Bus Stop''

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00007
Abstract

Members of The All American Chorus in front of a large bus with a sign advertising their show ''Bus Stop'' performed at Central City.

Dates: 1957

All American Chorus Performing in White Tuxedos

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00016
Abstract

The All American Chorus performs on stage in white tuxedos.. Concert included works by John Philip Sousa (March, King Cotton), Franz Schubert (Overture to Rosamunde), Leo delibes (Ballet Music from Coppelia), Liszt-Saylor (Second Hungarian Rhapsody, performed y the trumpet Sextette), J.J. Richards (March, Shield of Liberty), and Louis Grossman (Czards from Der Geist des Woiwoden).

Dates: 1957

All American Chorus Singing Around a Piano

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Identifier: M123.03.0068.0003.00006
Abstract

Members of The All American Chorus gather around a grand piano and sing together.

Dates: 1957

Allen Smith

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Identifier: M123.03.0062.0001.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Allen Smith, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Spoletta in the opera ''Tosca.''

Dates: 1930-1969

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Archival Object 2541
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Opera 2539
Colorado 2416
Photographs 2338
Singers 1068
Actors 881