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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:

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00002
Abstract

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."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00003
Abstract

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."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00004
Abstract

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."

Dates: 1957

Virginia MacWatters in an Unidentified Production, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0054.0005.00005
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1957

W. Somerset Maugham, 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0003.00001
Abstract

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.

Dates: 1940

W. Somerset Maugham

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0003.00002
Abstract

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.

Dates: 1930-1969

W. Somerset Maugham

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0003.00003
Abstract

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.

Dates: 1930-1969

W. Somerset Maugham, 1951

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0003.00005
Abstract

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham, a playwright who wrote 'The Constant Wife' which the Central City Opera performed in 1951.

Dates: 1951

Walter Cassel, 1956

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0012.00001
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1956

Walter Cassel, 1956

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0012.00002
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1956

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