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Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)

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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 804 Collections and/or Records:

Billboards for D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and 'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00016
Abstract Two Central City affiliates take down the bill board for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and replace it with a billboard advertising 'Bus Stop.' The D'oyly Carte bill board reads, " central City Opea House Assn. presents twenty-fourth annual opera festival July 2- July 20, 1955. Direct from London, England, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Sir Willam Gilbert's and Sir Arthur Sullivan's immortal operas 'The Mikado,' 'The Yeoman of the Guard,' 'Trial by Jury,' 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' 'Iolanthe.'...
Dates: 1955

Bob Reed Marking the Opera House Stage, 1963 June 16

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0081.0005.00002
Abstract

Black and white photograph of stage hand Bob Reed, marking the stage for the 1963 opera season festival at the Central City Opera Festival.

Dates: 1963 June 16

Box 97: Files, AGMA-"Plaza Suite", 1969

 File — Box M123.0097: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186018617439]
Identifier: M123.01.0097
Abstract

This box contains (23) file folders : AGMA - ''Plaza Suite.''

Dates: 1969

Box 181: CCOHA General Record Books and Reconcilement Books, 1903-1968

 File — Box M123.0181: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186022650693]
Identifier: M123.01.0181
Abstract

'Central City Opera House Association General Record Book,' three volumes; 1938-1941, October 25, 1946-September 30, 1947, October 1, 1967- September 30, 1968. 'Reconcilement Book,' five volumes; 1903-1906, 1906-1909, 1909-1911, 1911-1915, 1915-1915.

Dates: 1903-1968

Box 242: Production and Event Files, 1967-1974

 File — Box M123.0242: Series M123.06 [Barcode: U186024329921]
Identifier: M123.06.0242
Abstract This box contains photographs, programs, print material, and other documents pertaining to productions and events from 1967-1974. Events included are luncheons and dinners, galas, Operalogue, Fashion Show, Yellow Rose Ball, and press parties. Prodcutions include: Cactus Flower (1967), Don Pasquale (1967), A Masked Ball (1967), The Merry Widow (1967), There's a Girl in my Soup (1968), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1968), Die Fledermaus (1969), Tosca (1969), Plaza Suite (1969), Forty Carats...
Dates: 1967-1974

Box Office for 'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00021
Abstract

Photograph of Central City affiliate selling tickets to an unknown woman for the 1955 production of 'Bus Stop."

Dates: 1955

Brian Aherne, 1951

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0002.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Brian Aherne; an actor with the Central City Opera who performed in the 1951 production of "The Constant Wife."

Dates: 1951

Brian Aherne, 1951

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0002.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Brian Aherne; an actor with the Central City Opera who performed in the 1951 production of "The Constant Wife."

Dates: 1951

Brian Aherne, 1951

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0034.0002.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Brian Aherne; an actor with the Central City Opera who performed in the 1951 production of "The Constant Wife."

Dates: 1951

Burgess Meredith

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0008.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Burgess Meredith, a director and producer who worked with the Central City Opera, directing the opera ''A Thurber Carnival.''

Dates: 1930-1969

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