Central City (Colo.)

Photograph of director Dr. Elmer Nagy, Gloria Lane and Virginia MacWatters rehearsing for the 1953 Central City production of 'Carmen."

Black and white photograph of Dezso Ernster rehearsing the part of Falstaff 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 Dezso Ernster rehearsing the part of Falstaff 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 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 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.'

Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957, shows a costume drawing to Virginia MacWatters.

Left to right, Louis Sgarro, Christine Cardillo, Virginia MacWatters and Theodor Uppman who all performed in the 1954 Central City Opera production of ''Ariadne,'' look at the script book.

(from left to right) Louis Sgarro, Rosalind Elias, Virgina MacWatters, and Theodor Uppman, perfromers from the 1954 Central City Opera production of ''Faust,'' pose for a picture by the piano.

Black and white photograph of Gloria Lane rehearsing the part of Mrs. Page (Meg Page/Frau Reich) 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.'