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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 58 Collections and/or Records:

Herbert Graf

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1941-1948 and 1953 seasons.

Dates: 1930-1969

Herbert Graf, 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1941-1948 and 1953 seasons.

Dates: 1953

Herbert Graf

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00007
Abstract

Portrait of Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1941-1948 and 1953 seasons.

Dates: 1930-1969

Herbert Graf Holds a Manuscript of ''Carmen'', 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00006
Abstract

Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera, holds a copy of the manuscript for the opera ''Carmen'' which he produced and directed at the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1953

Jean Kerr, 1962

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0050.0009.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Jean Kerr, a playwright who worked with the Central City Opera and authored the show ''Mary Mary'' in 1962.

Dates: 1962

Jed Harris

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0048.0007.00001
Abstract

Informal portrait of Jed Harris, a theatre producer and director who worked with the Central City Opera in 1937 on the production "A Doll's House."

Dates: 1930-1969

Jed Harris Formal Portrait

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0048.0007.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Jed Harris, a theatre producer and director who worked with the Central City Opera in 1937 on the production "A Doll's House."

Dates: 1930-1969

John Brownlee

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0011.00001
Abstract

John Brownlee, a baritone singer performed in the 1941 production of "The Barber of Seville" with the Cerntral City Opera House and then was the director for the 1965 opera season, converses with (left to right) Henry Lerber, Mrs. Frederick Jagel, Mrs. Brownlee and Frederick Jagel.

Dates: 1941-1965

John Brownlee, 1941

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0011.00002
Abstract

Portrait of John Brownlee, a baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in ''The Barber of Seville'' and returned to Central City in 1965 to direct the opera productions.

Dates: 1941

John Brownlee

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0011.00003
Abstract

Portrait of John Brownlee, a baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera, in ''The Barber of Seville'' and returned to Central City in 1965 to direct the opera productions.

Dates: 1941-1965

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