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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 2629 Collections and/or Records:

Richard Krause

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Richard Krause, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Richard Krause

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0051.0005.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Richard Krause, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Richard Wentworth, 1956

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0065.0010.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Richard Wentworth, a bass-baritone singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1956

Rini Willson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0066.0010.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Rini Willson, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera on the 1961 production ' An evening of Mirth and Music with Meredith and Rini Wilson,' outside his home.

Dates: 1930-1969

Rini Willson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0066.0010.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Rini Willson, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera on the 1961 production ' An evening of Mirth and Music with Meredith and Rini Wilson.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Rita DeCarlo, 1965

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0043.0008.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Rita DeCarlo, a soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Bertha in the 1965 production of 'The Barber of Seville' and as Mallika is 'Lakme' during the same season.

Dates: 1965

Robert Bagar

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0001.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Robert Bagar, a music critic affiliated with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1930-1969

Robert Barry, 1958

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0010.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Robert Barry, tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in the 1957 season as Ottokar in "The Gypsy Baron' and Matteo Borsa in "Rigoletto" and in the 1958 season playing Beppe in the opera ''Pagliocci'' and Don Miguel de Panatellas in the opera ''La Perichole.''

Dates: 1958

Robert Barry, 1958

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0010.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Robert Barry, tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in the 1957 season as Ottokar in "The Gypsy Baron' and Matteo Borsa in "Rigoletto" and in the 1958 season playing Beppe in the opera ''Pagliocci'' and Don Miguel de Panatellas in the opera ''La Perichole.''

Dates: 1958

Robert E. Jones

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0050.0003.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Robert E. Jones, a scenic, lighting, and costume designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1932-1941.

Dates: 1930-1969

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