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 39 Collections and/or Records:
Box 289: Negatives, 1958-1959
This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1958-1959 festival season. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.
Box 290: Negatives, 1959
This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1959 festival season. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.
Box 291: Negatives, 1959-1960
This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1955 festival season. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.
Box 292: Negatives, 1960-1968
This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1960-1968 festival seasons. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.
Box 293: Negatives, 1950-1965
Box 294: Negatives, 1944-1950
Central City Opera Festival - Teller House, 1952
People in period costumes from the early 1900's participate in the opening of the 1952 Central City Opera Festival on Main Street in front of the famous Teller Building.
Central City Opera House Billboard - ''Othello'', 1934
Photograph of the Central City Opera House billboard advertising the 1934 production of ''Othello,'' staring Walter Huston.
Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe Wedding Celebration Scene, 1956-1959
Walter Cassel and Dolores Wilson portray Horace and Baby Doe Tabor in the wedding celebration scene of a production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.
Central City Opera's the Ballad of Baby Doe, between 1956-1959
Clifford Harvuot (front and left of center with mustache) appears as Horace Tabor, with Mary McMurray (Augusta Tabor) and Osie Hawkins (footman), in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.
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