Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
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:
Cast Members from 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial', 1954
Black and white photograph of a crowd of unidentified Central City affiliates gathering in suits and costume in Central City, Colorado.
Cast Members of 'Bus Stop', 1955
Robert Chase (left) associate editor of The Rocky Mountain News, greets the stars of 'Bus Stop,' Left to right, Albert Salmi, Peggy Ann Garner, Winifred Ainslee and Glenn Anders.
Cast of 'The Merry Widow' on Opera House Stairs, 1967
Black and white photograph of performers of the 1967 Festival production of 'The Merry Widow' standing on the exterior opera house stairs located in the opera house garden.
Cast of 'The Miracle Worker', 1961
Black and white photograph of (from l to r) Donna Zimmerman performing as Helen Keller, Eileen Brennan as Anne Sullivan, C.M. Gampel as captain Keller, Thomas Connolly as James Keller, Kay Chevalier as Kate Keller and Alice Yourman as Aunt Ev seated at a table in a scene in the 1961 Central City Opera Festival production of the theater piece 'The Miracle Worker.'
Cast of 'The Miracle Worker', 1961
Black and white photograph of (seated on the floor) Donna Zimmerman performing as Helen Keller, (from l to r) Eileen Brennan as Anne Sullivan, C.M. Gampel as Captain Keller, Thomas Connolly as James Keller, Alice Yourman as Aunt Ev and Kay Chevalier as Kate Kelle seated at a table in a scene in the 1961 Central City Opera Festival production of the theater piece 'The Miracle Worker.'
Cast of 'Yeoman of the Guard', 1955-1968
Photograph of the cast of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's production of 'The Yeoman of the Guard' at the Central City Opera House.
Cast Singing at the Piano During Rehearsals for ''Amerila Goes To The Ball''
Francesco Valentino, Eleanor Steber and David Garen sing around the piano while associate music director, Walter Taussig,plays piano and music director, Tibor Kozma, conducts while rehearsing for the Central City Opera production of ''Amelia Goes To The Ball.''
Cast Singing at the Piano rehearsing for ''Amerila Goes To The Ball''
The cast sings around the piano while music director Tibor Kozma (far right) conducts a rehearsal for the Central City Opera production of ''Amelia Goes To The Ball.''
Cavalleria Rusticana, 1958, 1958
This file contains copy of 'Opera News' and photographs of performer Gloria Lind from the Central City production of Cavelleria Rusticana.
Cecilia Ward, 1958
Portrait of Cecilia Ward, a mezzo-soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1958 season in the opera ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' as Lola and ''La Perichole'' as Berginella.
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