Central City Opera Festival

Black and white photograph of CCOH performer Dorothy Chapman, who performed in the 1935 production of 'Central City Nights' at the Opera House.

Black and white photograph of CCOH performer Dorothy Chapman, who performed in the 1935 production of 'Central City Nights' at the Opera House.

Photograph of Dorothy Scott who performed as Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet in the Central City Festival production of 'Harvey,' in an unknown location in Central City, Colorado.

Black and white photograph of Producer and Set Designer Dr. Elemer Nagy with Gloria Lane who will perform as Mrs. Page (Meg Page/Frau Reich) in the 1953 Central City Opera performance of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'

Black and white photograph of Dr. Elemer Nagy (producer) and performer Mildred Miller (soprano) backstage at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Black and white photograph of Producer and Set Designer Dr. Elemer Nagy with Virginia MacWatters who will perform as Mrs. Ford (Alice Ford/Frau Fluth) in the 1953 Central City Opera performance of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'

Black and white photograph of Central City affiliates Dr. Herbert Graf (opera producer), Frank St. Leger (conductor), Earl Lewis, Frances Wayne (jazz vocalist), Frank Ricketson (CCOHA president) pose in the opera house garden in Central City, Colorado.

Black and white photograph of Ed Johnson (at microphone) and Frank Ricketson (far right) addressing crowd of affiliates in an unknown location.

Black and white photograph of Edith Evans (left) as Mrs. Page (Meg Page/Frau Reich) and Jacquelynne Moody (right) as Mrs. Ford (Alice Ford/Frau Fluth) in Act I scene 1 where the two woman have discovered that they have both received letters from Falstaff in the 1953 Central City Opera performance of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'

Signed postcard of Edward Kane in costume for the part of Marco Palmieri in the 1936 Central City Festival at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.