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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 18 Collections and/or Records:

Herbert Graf

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1941-1948 and 1953 seasons.

Dates: 1930-1969

Herbert Graf, 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1941-1948 and 1953 seasons.

Dates: 1953

Herbert Graf

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00007
Abstract

Portrait of Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1941-1948 and 1953 seasons.

Dates: 1930-1969

Herbert Graf Holds a Manuscript of ''Carmen'', 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00006
Abstract

Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera, holds a copy of the manuscript for the opera ''Carmen'' which he produced and directed at the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1953

Jean Kerr, 1962

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0050.0009.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Jean Kerr, a playwright who worked with the Central City Opera and authored the show ''Mary Mary'' in 1962.

Dates: 1962

John T. Sloper, 1950

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0021.00001
Abstract

Portrait of John Sloper, a stage manager who worked with the Central City Opera on 'Diamond Lil' in 1949, and on 'Don Pasquale' and 'The Devil's Disciple' in 1950.

Dates: 1950

John T. Sloper, 1949

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0021.00002
Abstract

Four images on one sheet: (upper left) Portrait of John Sloper, a performer who was a member of the production staff for Central City Opera. (upper right and lower left) Views ofJohn Sloper's traveling desk. (lower right) John Sloper at his traveling desk.

Dates: 1949

Russell Lewis, 1933-1935

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0052.0002.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Russell Lewis, an assistant to the stage director who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1933-1935

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