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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:

Billboard Advertising 1947 Festival, 1947

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00005
Abstract

Billboard reads, " The performances will be sugn in english by a brilliant cast of singers from New York; Fidelio, Lorenzo Alvary, Leslie Chabay, Lois Hunt, Philip Kinsman, Regina Resnik, Kenneth Schon, brian Sulliva. Martha, Larry Bolton, Lawrence Davidson, Frances Greer, Philip Kinsman, James pease, Leopold Simoneau, Claramae Turner, assistant conductor Karl Kritz, Leo Mueller, with a remarkable chorus and orchestra."

Dates: 1947

Billboard Advertising 1947 Festival, 1947

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00027
Abstract

Billboard reads, " The central City Opera House Assn. presents twelfth annual play festival July 4 through July 26, 1947. Produced by Frank St. Leger 'Fidelio' by Ludwig van Beethoven and 'Martha' by Friedrich von Flotow, conducted by Emil coopera, staged by herbert Graf, designed by Donald Oenslager."

Dates: 1947

Billboard Advertising 1947 Festival, 1947

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00028
Abstract

Billboard reads, " The central City Opera House Assn. presents twelfth annual play festival Auust 2 through August 27, 1947. Brock Pemberton presents Frank Fay in the Pulitzer Price Play 'Harvey' by mary Chase with Marion Lorne.'

Dates: 1947

Billboard Advertising 1948 Opera festival, 1948

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00003
Abstract Billboard reads, " The Performances will be sung in english by a brilliant cast of singers from New York; Cosi Fan Tutte, Lorenzo Alvary, Anne Bollinger, Marilyn, Cotlow, Clifford Harvuot, Joseph Laderoute, Jane Hobson. Tales of Hoffman, Mario Berini, Robert Busch, Leslie Chabay, Gene Carey, Igor Gorin, Laura Grauer, Jerome Hines, Philip Kinsman, Igne Manski, Marquita Moll, Claudia Pinza, JohnReplogle, Thomas Hayward, Graciela Silvain, Karl Kritz, Peter Fuchs, with a remarkable chorus and...
Dates: 1948

Billboard Advertising 1948 Play festival, 1948

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00002
Abstract

Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presents 70th anniversary play festival production of Ferenc Molnar's Gayest Comedy, The Play's the Thing, July 31 through August, 1948, starring Louis Calhern with Faye Emerson, Arthur Margetson, Ernest Cossart and the entire New York Cast including Claud Allister, Francis Compton, Richard Hylton."

Dates: 1948

Billboard Advertising 1948 Play festival, 1948

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00004
Abstract

Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presents thirteenth annual play festival July 2 through July 24, 1948, produced by Frank St. Leger, Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach, conducted by Emil Cooper, Staged by Herbert Graf, designed by Donald Oeslager."

Dates: 1948

Billboard Advertising 1950 Festival, 1950

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00018
Abstract

Billboard for 1950 season reads, " The Central City Opera house Assn. presents fifteenth annual play festival August 5 through August 26, 1960. Maurice Evans in Bernard Shaw's comedy 'The Devil's Disciple' production staged by George Somnes."

Dates: 1950

Billboard Advertising 1951 Festival, 1951

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00016
Abstract

Billboard for 1951 season reads, " The central City Opera house Assn. presents sixteenth annual play festival August 4 through Sept. 1, 1951 Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne, Grace George in 'The Constant Wife' by W. Somerset Maugham."

Dates: 1951

Billboard Advertising 1951 Festival, 1951

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00017
Abstract Billboard for 1951 season reads, " The Central City Opera house Assn. presents sixteenth annual festival June 30 through july 28, 1951. Romeo and Juliet; Adelaide Biship, Davis Cunningham, Paul Franke, Andrew Gainey, David Greem, Clifford Harvuot, Virginia Haskins, Ted Huffman, Laurel Jurley, Dean Hutchings, William Kieth, Kayton, Nesbitt, Margaret Roggero, Benjamin Thomas, Francesco Valentino, Lubomir Vichegonov. Amelia Goes to the Ball; Bettie clark, Andrew Gaiey, David Garen, Shirley...
Dates: 1951

Billboard Advertising 1952 Festival, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00013
Abstract

Billboard for 1952 season reads,"Central City Opera House Assn. twenty-first annual festival August 2 - August 30, 1952 presents Helen Hays in 'Mrs. McThing' a comic fantasy by Mary Chase with Jules Munshin, Enid Markey, Lydia Reed, Paula Trueman, Robert Mariotti, directed by Joseph Buloff, setting and lighting by lester Polakov, costumes by Lucinda Ballard."

Dates: 1952

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