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 2629 Collections and/or Records:
Virginia MacWatters, 1957
Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."
Virginia MacWatters, 1957
Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."
Virginia MacWatters, 1957
Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron."
Virginia MacWatters in an Unidentified Production, 1957
Portrait of Virginia MacWatters, a coloratura soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1952 season as Susanne in "The Marriage of Figaro", 1953 as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", 1954 "Ariadne auf Naxos", and the 1957 season as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and as Arsena in "The Gypsy Baron", appears in an unidentified production.
W. Somerset Maugham, 1940
Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.
W. Somerset Maugham
Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.
W. Somerset Maugham
Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.
W. Somerset Maugham, 1951
Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.
Walter Cassel, 1956
Portrait of Walter Cassel, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1956 world premiere of the production of 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' as H.A.W. Tabor.
Walter Cassel, 1956
Portrait of Walter Cassel, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1956 world premiere of the production of 'The Ballad of Bay Doe' as H.A.W. Tabor.
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