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 770 Collections and/or Records:
Paul Porter in 'Central City Nights', 1935
Signed photograph of Paul Porter, a performer in the 1935 Central City production of 'Central City Nights.'
Peggy Ann Garner and Albert Salmi in 'Bus Stop', 1955
Peggy Ann Garner as Cherie and Albert Salmi as Bo Decker in the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'
Percy Waram
Portrait of Percy Waram, an actor who performed with the Central City Opera.
Performance of 'The Constant Wife', 1951
Black and white photograph of the cast and set of the 1951 Central City production of 'The Constant Wife' taken from the back of the opera hall.
Performance of 'The Constant Wife', 1951
Black and white photograph of an unidentified cast member of the 1951 Central City production of 'The Constant Wife' taken from the back of the opera hall.
Performers from 1954 Season, 1954
Black and white photograph of performers from the 1954 Central City Festival season gather for a picnic in an unknonw location in Central City, Colorado.
Performers in Unknown Location
Black and white photograph of affiliates gather for an unknown production and unknown location.
Performers in Unknown Production
Black and white photograph of affiliates (from l to r) Mike Mazurki, Dave Starr, Aggie Small, Vera Waton and Carl Eberle in an unknown production and unknown location.
Perry Ivans in 'Central City Nights', 1935
Photograph of Perry Ivans, as Joseph Jefferson in the scene 'Rip Van Winkle' in the 1935 Central City production of 'Central City Nights.'
Peter Herman Adler, 1949
Portrait of Peter Herman Adler, an opera conductor and artistic director who worked with the Central City Opera on the production of "Die Fledermaus" in 1949.
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