Skip to main content

Operas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Staged dramatic works in which the actors sing most or all of their parts, and other types of musico-dramatic works that have significant portions of spoken text and have historically been regarded as forming part of the operatic repertory.

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

Mrs. McThing, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.02.0395.0017.00003
Abstract Program from the Central City Opera House Association's 1952 production of "Mrs. McThing." Cast includes: Helen Hayes (Mrs. Howard V. Larue III), Mary Michael (Carrie), Paula Trueman (Sybil), Enid Markey (Evva Loomis), Marga Ann Deighton (Maude Loomis), Mildred Chandler (Grace Loomis), Lee Bergere (Nelson), Robert Mariotti and Raymond Niemi (Boy), Howard Fischer (Chef/Ellsworth), William Lanteau (Waiter/Virgil), Frank Corsaro (Dirty Joe), Fred...
Dates: 1952

Music School Opera Rehearsal, 1986 January

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0070.0007.00003.00001
Abstract

A music director rehearses in a classroom with students singing behind music stands at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music in January 1986.

Dates: 1986 January

Nathaniel Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M431
Abstract

The Nathaniel Merrill Papers consist of scores relating to Nathaniel Merrill, stage director, opera director, and founder of Opera Colorado.

Dates: 1979

Orpheus, 1941 July

 Item
Identifier: M123.02.0395.0010.00001
Abstract Program for "Orpheus" produced by the Central City Opera House Association.Cast includes: Anna Kaskas (Orpheus), Margit Bokor (Euridice), Patricia Dunn (Amor), Betty Alexander, Mercedes Bonger, Dorothea Butz, Susan Downing, Mary Droge, Laura Grauer, Faith Keefer, Norma Lee Larkin, Elsie Lorenz, Carolyn Loutzenheiser, Gertrude Marley, Marie Mauro, Harriette Mayo, Suzanne Miller, Gwen Patterson, Betty Jane Pritts, Ardis Schmitz, Margaret Snider, Betty Talley, Helen Unfug, Precious...
Dates: 1941 July

Othello, July-August 1934

 Item
Identifier: M123.02.0395.0003.00001
Abstract Program for "Othello" produced by the Central City Opera House Association starring Walter Huston and directed by Robert Edmond Jones. Kenneth Hunter (Prologue (spoken)), Boardman Robinson (Duke of Venice), Charles Halton (Barbantio), Harry Hazzard (Gratiano), Robert Rider (Lodovico), Walter Huston (Othello), Kenneth Hunter (Cassio), Kenneth MacKenna (Iago), Philip Foster (Roderigo), Ben Bezoff (Montano), Bernard Heller (Paulo), Paul Porter (A Herald), Nan Sunderland (Desdemona),...
Dates: July-August 1934

Programs, 1932-2018

 Series
Identifier: M123.02
Scope and Contents

This series contains programs from Central City Opera productions.

Dates: 1932-2018

Romeo & Juliet, 1951 June/July

 Item
Identifier: M123.02.0395.0016.00003
Abstract Program from the Central City Opera House Association's 1951 production of "Romeo and Juliet." Cast includes: Paul Franke and Kayton Nesbit (Tybalt), Ted Huffman (Count Paris), Francesco Valetino (Count Capulet), Adelaide Bishop, Virginia Haskins, and Laurel Hurley (Juliet), Andrew Gainey and Clifford Harvuot (Mercutio), Margaret Roggero (Gertrude), Davis Cunningham and David Garen (Romeo), Dean Hutchings (Gregorio), Lubomir Vichegonov (Friar Lawrence), Laurel Hurley and...
Dates: 1951 June/July

Ruy Blas, 1938 July

 Item
Identifier: M123.02.0395.0007.00001
Abstract Program for "Ruy Blas" presented by the Central City Opera House Association starring Helen Chandler and Bramwell Fletcher and directed by Robert Edmond Jones.Cast includes: Bramwell Fletcher (Ruy Blas/Don Cesar de Bazan), Helen Chandler (Dona Maria de Neuburg, Queen of Spain), Nance O'Neil (The Duchess de Albuquerque), Percy Waram (Don Sallustio de Bazan), Adele Thorne (Casilda), Leo Chalzel (Gudiel), William Sauter (Priest), Walter Beck (Covadenga), Fred Stewart (Page),...
Dates: 1938 July

Series 2, 1883 - 1994

 Series
Identifier: M208.01
Abstract

Series 2 consists of the personal papers of Galen and Ada Belle Spencer.

Dates: 1883 - 1994

Silverheels - Script Pages

 File
Identifier: D037.01.0001.0008
Abstract

File contains typescript pages for the script of the opera "Silverheels." Pages appear to be possibly edits to the script, there is one loose page that points out changes.

Dates: 1910-1987