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Opera

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Scope Note: Here are entered general works about opera. Musical compositions in this form are entered under the heading|aOperas.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Blanche DaCosta Whitney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M247
Abstract Blanche Da Costa Whitney was born September 24, 1882 in Chicago. She studied with Rudolph Ganz at Chicago Musical College before joining Mme Schumann-Heink, a noted opera signer, to Europe. Da Costa sang leading opera roles in Germany. She was forced to leave Germany by World War I and returned to America. She had a son, Frederick Berman, by her first husband. Her son died in 1945. She married Warren C. Whitney, vice president of A. B. Chase Piano Company in 1918. They moved to Denver...
Dates: 1882-1957

Central City Opera House Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: M123
Abstract The Central City Opera House Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1931 to manage and preserve the Central City Opera House located in Central City, Colorado and to direct annual summer opera festivals. Heirs of Peter McFarlane, a Central City businessman who owned the Opera House prior to 1931, donated the building to the University of Denver in 1931. The real estate holdings of the University of Denver were transferred back to the Association in 1982. The Association held...
Dates: 1931-2015

Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M208
Abstract

The Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation is a civic and social charitable organization in Denver, Colorado. This collection contains personal papers, documents, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, posters, plaques, and a hand-painted sign reading "Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation".

Dates: Other: 1883 - 1994

Howard Sayette Metropolitan Opera Poster

 Collection
Identifier: D067
Abstract

This collection contains (1) oversize poster donated by Howard Sayette, a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1960-1970s. The poster is for 'Aida' starring Birgit Nilsson and taking place on October 14, 1963. Howard Sayette is listed as a dancer for the performance, choreographed by Katherine Dunham.

Dates: 1963

"Orpheus and Eurydice" Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: D088
Abstract The collection includes a pasted program of the event, 15 b/w original photographic portraits of Mary Wigman* (two large: 5 6/8 x 4 3/8, and 5 3/8 x 3 3/8", and 13 smaller: 3 3/8 x 2"), 9 silver gelatin prints showing the choregrapher amidst her dancers (2 x 3 3/8"), and two depicting German conductor Heinz Bongartz, with costume designer Gerda Schulte (4 1/2 x 3 2/8"). The remaining 166 photographs depict the path, development and flow of the opera from scene to scene. They feature Wigman's...
Dates: 1947