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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 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Donald Adams in "The Mikado", 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" , the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe", the Pirate Kinf in "The Pirates of Penzance", and the Mikado in "The Mikado" , performs in costume as the Mikado in "The Mikado."

Dates: 1955-1968

Donald Adams in "The Pirates of Penzance", 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0001.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Donald Adams, a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed works by Gilbert and Sullivan during the 1955 and 1968 seasons at Central City Opera, Adams played Dick Deadeye in "H.M.S. Pinafore" , the Earl of Mountararat in "Iolanthe", the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance", and the Mikado in "The Mikado" , performs in costume as the Pirate King in the production of "The Pirates of Penzance"

Dates: 1968

Dorothy Chapman

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Identifier: M123.03.0040.0005.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Chapman, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera in the 1935 production 'Central City Nights.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Dorothy Chapman

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0005.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Chapman, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera in the 1935 production 'Central City Nights.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Dorothy Chapman in ''Central City Nights'', 1935

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0005.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Chapman, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera, in costume for the opera ''Central City Nights.''

Dates: 1935

Dorothy Chapman in ''Central City Nights'', 1935

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0005.00004
Abstract

Dorothy Chapman, a performer who worked with the Central City Opera, in costume backstage during the opera ''Central City Nights.''

Dates: 1935

Dorothy Coulter, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0020.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Coulter, a soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1961 production of 'La Traviata.'

Dates: 1961

Dorothy Coulter, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0020.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Coulter, a soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1961 production of 'La Traviata.'

Dates: 1961

Dorothy Coulter, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0020.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Coulter, a soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1961 production of 'La Traviata.'

Dates: 1961

Dorothy Coulter at 'Bobtail Tunnel'', 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0040.0020.00009
Abstract

Portrait of Dorothy Coulter, a soprano singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1961 production of 'La Traviata', at ''Bobtail Tunnel'' mine.

Dates: 1961

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