Central City Opera Festival

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Billboard reads, " In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House with Miss Margaret Waller, Miss Hop Landin, Miss Inga Hill, Mr. Harold Johnsrud, english version by Thornton Wilder, setting and costumes by Mr. Donald Oenslager, production by Mr. Jed Harris."

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Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presentsfourteenth annual festival July 30 through August 27, 1949. the Albert H. Rosen & Herbert J. Freezer production Mae West in Diamond Lil by Mae West directed by Charles K. Freeman.

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Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Association, Inc. Sixth Annual Play Festival July 17 to August 7, 1937. Mr. Richard Aldrich presents Miss Ruth Gordon, Mr. Dennis King, Mr. Walter Slezak, Mr. Sam Jaffe, continued."

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Billboard reads, " The performances will be sung in english by a remarkable cast of singers from New York; Adelaide Bishop, Larry Bolton, Vera Bryner, Gabor Carelli, Laura Castellano, Davis Cunningham, Helen George, Clifford Harvuot, Norman Kelly, Regina Resnik, Kenneth Schon, Johnny Silver, assistant conductor Peter Paul Fuchs, with a remarkable chorus, ballet and orchestra."

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Photograph of Blanche Collins actress who performed as Mrs. Chandler in the 1959 Central City Festival production of 'The Gazebo,' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Photograph of Blanche Collins actress who performed as Mrs. Chandler in the 1959 Central City Festival production of 'The Gazebo,' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Black and white photograph of entertainer Bob Hope and an unidentified performer as Mephistopheles in the 1954 Central City festival production of 'Faust' in the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

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Black and white photograph of The Princeton University Boomerangs performing on the opera house steps in the garden. The Boomerangs were to sing at the Central City Opera and play festival during an unknown season.

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Black and white photograph of The Princeton University Boomerangs performing on the opera house steps in the garden. The Boomerangs were to sing at the Central City Opera and play festival during an unknown season.

Abstract This box contains photographs, programs, print material, and other documents pertaining to productions and events from 1967-1974. Events included are luncheons and dinners, galas, Operalogue, Fashion Show, Yellow Rose Ball, and press parties. Prodcutions include: Cactus Flower (1967), Don Pasquale (1967), A Masked Ball (1967), The Merry Widow (1967), There's a Girl in my Soup (1968), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1968), Die Fledermaus (1969), Tosca (1969), Plaza Suite (1969), Forty Carats...