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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 804 Collections and/or Records:

Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0013.00002
Abstract

Photograph of Emerson Buckley, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera from 1965-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, and 1976. Emerson Buckley was the music director for the first three productions of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0013.00003
Abstract

Photograph of Emerson Buckley, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera from 1965-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, and 1976. Emerson Buckley was the music director for the first three productions of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0013.00004
Abstract

Photograph of Emerson Buckley, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera from 1965-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, and 1976. Emerson Buckley was the music director for the first three productions of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0013.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Emerson Buckley, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera from 1965-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, and 1976. Emerson Buckley was the music director for the first three productions of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0013.00006
Abstract

Photograph of Emerson Buckley, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera from 1965-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, and 1976. Emerson Buckley was the music director for the first three productions of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emerson Buckley

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0013.00007
Abstract

Photograph of Emerson Buckley, a conductor and music director who worked with the Central City Opera from 1965-1960, 1964, 1967, 1969, and 1976. Emerson Buckley was the music director for the first three productions of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emerson Buckley Conducting from the Orchestra Pit, 1967

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0084.0001.00018
Abstract

Black and white photograph of music director, Emerson Buckley, conducting the festival orchestra from the pit during an unknown production at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1967

Emerson Buckley Ringing Hand Bell

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0082.0001.00003
Abstract

Black and white photograph of Emerson Buckley (music director) ringing a hand bell while two unidentified affiliates lean in to listen in an unknown location in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1930-1969

Emil Cooper, 1948

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0013.00001
Abstract

Emil Cooper, a conductor from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1946-1948 summer seasons, directs the orchestra.

Dates: 1948

Emil Cooper, 1948

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0013.00002
Abstract

Emil Cooper, a conductor from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1946-1948 summer seasons, directs the orchestra.

Dates: 1948

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Opera 801
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