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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 2694 Collections and/or Records:

Kenneth Sandford in an Unidentified Production, 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0004.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Sandford, a baritone singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during during a residency in 1968. Sandford performed in the roles of Pooh-Bah in 'the Mikado' and Wilfrid Shadbolt in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' appears in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1968

Kenneth Sandford in an Unidentified Production, 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0004.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Sandford, a baritone singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during during a residency in 1968. Sandford performed in the roles of Pooh-Bah in 'the Mikado' and Wilfrid Shadbolt in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' appears in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1968

Kenneth Sandford in ''The Mikado'', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0004.00006
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Sandford, a baritone singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during during a residency in 1968. Sandford performed in the roles of Pooh-Bah in 'the Mikado' and Wilfrid Shadbolt in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' appears as Pooh-Bah in the opera ''The Mikado.''

Dates: 1968

Kenneth Sandford in 'The Yeoman of the Guard', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0004.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Sandford, a baritone singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during during a residency in 1968. Sandford performed in the roles of Pooh-Bah in 'the Mikado' and Wilfrid Shadbolt in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' appears as Wilfrid Shadbolt in the production 'The Yeoman of the Guard.'

Dates: 1968

Kenneth Sandford in ''The Yeomen of the Guard'', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0004.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Sandford, a baritone singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during during a residency in 1968. Sandford performed in the roles of Pooh-Bah in 'the Mikado' and Wilfrid Shadbolt in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' appears as Wilfrid Shadbolt in the production 'The Yeoman of the Guard.'

Dates: 1968

Kenneth Schon in ''Die Meistersinger''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0009.00001
Abstract

Kenneth Schon, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera as Don Pizarro in the 1947 production of 'Fidelio' and as Frank in the 1949 production of 'Die Fledermaus,' appears as Kothner in the opera ''Die Meistersinger.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Kenneth Smith, 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0002.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Smith, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1953 season as Zuniga in the opera ''Carmen'' and as the Page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

Dates: 1953

Kenneth Smith, 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0062.0002.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Kenneth Smith, a bass-baritone singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1953 season as Zuniga in the opera ''Carmen'' and as the Page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

Dates: 1953

KMYR Broadcast of Voice of America - 1954, 1954

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0086.0006.00001
Abstract

Black and white film negative of unknown roadio personality reading from a document into a KMYR microphone while standing on the opera house stage that is set for the production Faust (June 26th-July 2nd) in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1954

KMYR Broadcast of Voice of America - 1954, 1954

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0086.0006.00004
Abstract

Black and white film negative of unknown roadio personality reading from a document into a KMYR microphone while standing on the opera house stage that is set for the production Faust (June 26th-July 2nd) in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1954

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