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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 770 Collections and/or Records:

Sally Hester in 'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00019
Abstract

Photograph of Sally Hester, an actress who performed as Elma Duckworth in the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

Sandor Szabo, 1964

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0020.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Sandor Szabo, an actor who performed with the Central City opera.

Dates: 1964

Saul Caston

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0016.00001
Abstract

Saul Caston, a music director for the Denver Symphony Orchestra and the Central City Opera, plays an organ at an old home in Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Scene in ''The Bartered Bride'', 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0004.00011
Abstract

(from left ro right) Helen Olheim, Louis D'Angelo, and Norman Cordon appear in a scene in the Central City Opera production of ''The Bartered Bride.''

Dates: 1940

Scene in ''The Bartered Bride'', 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0004.00012
Abstract

Unidentified performers appear in a scene in the Central City Opera production of ''The Bartered Bride.''

Dates: 1940

Scott Elliott in 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0071.0003.00024
Abstract

Photograph actor Scott Elliott who performed as Lt (Jr. Grade) Willis Seward Keith in a dressing room for the 1954 Central City production of 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.'

Dates: 1954

Sheila Barrett, 1937

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0008.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Sheila Barrett, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1937

Sheila Barrett, 1937

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0008.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Sheila Barrett, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera, at the Teller House night club durring the 1937 Central City Festival.

Dates: 1937

Six Men in the ''Ballad of Baby Doe'', between 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00032
Abstract

Walter Cassel (second from right) as Horace Tabor and five unidentified men perform in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe.''

Dates: between 1956-1959

Stanley Carlson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0004.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Stanley Carlson, a bass-baritone opera singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

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