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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 12 Collections and/or Records:

Richard Bonelli in Costume, 1933

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0037.0007.00007
Abstract

Richard Bonelli, a baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in costume for "The Merry Widow". The Merry Widow ran at the Central City Opera House from August 5-9, 1933.

Dates: 1933

Walter Cassel as Horace Tabor in Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe, between 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00015
Abstract

Walter Cassel of the Metropolitan Opera poses for a publicity portrait. Cassel appeared as Horace Tabor in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: between 1956-1959

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