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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:

Saul Caston

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0039.0016.00001
Abstract

Saul Caston, a music director for the Denver Symphony Orchestra and the Central City Opera, plays an organ at an old home in Central City.

Dates: 1930-1969

Scene from the 'H.M.S. Pinafore' with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0001.00003
Abstract

Photograph of Muriel Harding (left) as Josephine, Peter Pratt as Sir Joesph Porter and and unidentified male performer in the 1955 production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1955-1968

Scene from the 'H.M.S. Pinafore' with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0001.00004
Abstract

Photograph of unidentified performers in the 1955 production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1955-1968

Scene from the 'The Mikado', 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0001.00007
Abstract

Photograph of three unidentified performers in the 1968 production of 'The Mikado' by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1955-1968

Scene from the 'The Mikado', 1955-1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0001.00008
Abstract

Photograph of three unidentified performers in the 1968 production of 'The Mikado' by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1955-1968

Scene from the 'The Mikado', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0001.00009
Abstract

Photograph of three unidentified performers in the 1968 production of 'The Mikado' by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1968

Scene in ''The Bartered Bride'', 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0004.00011
Abstract

(from left ro right) Helen Olheim, Louis D'Angelo, and Norman Cordon appear in a scene in the Central City Opera production of ''The Bartered Bride.''

Dates: 1940

Scene in ''The Bartered Bride'', 1940

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0004.00012
Abstract

Unidentified performers appear in a scene in the Central City Opera production of ''The Bartered Bride.''

Dates: 1940

Scene in 'The Yeoman of the Guard', 1939

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0009.00005
Abstract

Photograph of unidentified performers in the Central City Opera House 1939 production of 'The Yeoman of the Guard,' in central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1939

Scene in 'The Yeoman of the Guard', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0009.00006
Abstract

Photograph of John Reed as jack Point and Valeria Masterson as Elsie Maynard in the D'Oyly carte Opera Company 1968 production f 'The Yeoman of the Guard,' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1968

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