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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 5447 Collections and/or Records:

Billboard Advertising 1953 Festival, 1953

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00011
Abstract

Billboard for 1953 season reads,"Central City Opera House Assn. Twenty-second annual festival August 1- August 29, 1953 presents Shirley Booth in 'The Time of the Cuckoo,' A romantic comedy by Arthur Laurents with the original New York Cast. Directed by Harold Clurman, setting and lights by Ben Edwards, costumes by Helene Pons."

Dates: 1953

Billboard Advertising 1953 Festival, 1953

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00012
Abstract Billboard for 1953 season reads,"Central City Opera House Assn. prsents central city festival June 27 through July 25, 1953. Carmenl Lucine Amara, Bettie Clark, Davis Cunningham, Edith Evans, Heidi Krall, Gloria Lane, Lloyd Thomas Leech, Mildred Miller, Kenneth Smith, Theodor Uppman. The Merry Wives of Windsor; Karl Brock, Dezso Ernster, Joseph Folmer, Leon Lishner, David Lloyd, Virginia Macwatters, Jacqulynne Moody, Emile Renan, Shirley Russel, Hugh Thompson. With a remarkable chorus and...
Dates: 1953

Billboard Advertising 1954 Festival, 1954

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00010
Abstract Billboard for 1954 season reads,"Twenty-third Annual Play Festival Central City Opera House Assn. presents June 26-July 24, 1954 Faust; Frances Bible, Virginia MacWatters, Adelaide Bishop, Rosalind Nadell, Jon Crain, Brian Sullivan, Joseph Folmer, Theodor Uppman, Lubomir Vichegonov. Ariadna auf Naxos; Charles Anthony, Eva Likova, Mimi Benzell, John McCollum, Christina Cardillo, Louis Sgarro, Madalaine Chambers, Vilma Spence, Rosalind Elias, Polyna Stoska, Thomas Hayward, Frank Valentino,...
Dates: 1954

Billboard Advertising 1954 Festival, 1954

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00029
Abstract

Billboard reads, " Twenty third annual play festival, Central City Opera House Assn. and Paul Gregory present July 31- August 28, 1954. Paul Douglas, Wendell Corey, Steve Brodie in Herman Wouk's 'The caine Mutiny Court Martial.' Directed by Charles Laughton through arrangements by George Somnes."

Dates: 1954

Billboard Advertising 1958 Opera Festival, 1958

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0001.00025
Abstract Billboard reads, " Central City Opera House Association twenty-seventh annual opera festival June 28th through July 26th, 1958. Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Macagni, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, settnig and costumes by Mr. Rolf Gerard, conductor Mr. Emerson Buckley, directed by Mr. Hans Busch and La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach starring Cyril Ritchard, directed by Mr. Ritchard and assisted by Nathaniel Merrill, associate conductor Walter Taussig, Roger Dexter Fee chorus master,...
Dates: 1958

Billboard Advertising A Doll's House, 1937

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0001.00026
Abstract

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."

Dates: 1937

Billboard Advertising And Perhaps Happiness, 1958

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0001.00024
Abstract

Billboard reads, " Central City Opera House Association twenty-seventh annual play festival presents August 2 through August 30, 1958. The Denver Post $10,000 prize play '...And Perhaps Happiness' (a legend of Silverheels) by Thomas Hornsby Ferril starring Hugh Marlowe, K.T. Stevens, Barbara O'Neil, Richard Gaines, Mason Alan Dinehart, directed by Edwin Levy, designed by Donald Oenslager."

Dates: 1958

Billboard Advertising Bus Stop, 1932-1958

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0001.00004
Abstract

Sign for Bus Stop opera in room surrounded by wooden chairs, reading ''Central City Opera House Assn. and Whitehead-Stevens Productions Inc. Present August 6-September 3, 1955 Bus Stop by William Inge Starring Peggy Ann Garner, Albert Salmi, and Glenn Anders, Directed by Harold Clurman.''

Dates: 1932-1958

Billboard Advertising Fifteenth Annual Play Festival, 1950

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0001.00028
Abstract

Billboard reads, " The Central City Opera House Assn. presents fifteenth annual play festival July 1 through July 20, 1950. Madame butterfly by Giacomo Puccini and Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, designed and directed by Dr. Elmer Nagy, conducted by tibor Kozma, through arrangemtn by Frank St. Leger, the performances will be sung in english by a brilliant cast of singers from New York."

Dates: 1950

Billboard Advertising for 1936 Festival, 1936

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Identifier: M123.03.0070.0002.00021
Abstract

Billboard for 1936 Central City festival, billboard reads," The central City Opera House Assn. Inc. presents 5th annual play festival July 18 to Aug. 8, 1936. Frank St. Legr's production of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 'The Gondoliers' or 'The King of Barataria' continued."

Dates: 1936