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Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

__ __ __Work cat.: The glory that was gold, 1992: t.p. (Central City Opera House) p. vii (built in 1878 in Central City, Colo.)

Biography

Central City Opera House is given to the University of Denver by the McFarlane family in 1932 (Ida Kruse McFarlane, Professor of English at DU, good friends with Anne Evans). The CCOHA was administered as a non-profit corporation during this time.

Sources

Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 126.

Found in 2694 Collections and/or Records:

Jon Crain

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0041.0002.00003
Abstract

Jon Crain, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1956 production of 'Tosca,' the 1957 production of 'Rigoletto' as Duke, and the 1961 Production of 'La Traviata.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Jon Crain

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0041.0002.00004
Abstract

Jon Crain, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1956 production of 'Tosca,' the 1957 production of 'Rigoletto' as Duke, and the 1961 Production of 'La Traviata.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Jon Crain

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0041.0002.00005
Abstract

Jon Crain, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1956 production of 'Tosca,' the 1957 production of 'Rigoletto' as Duke, and the 1961 Production of 'La Traviata.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Jon Crain in ''Rigoletto''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0041.0001.00001
Abstract

Jon Crain, a tenor singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1956 production of 'Tosca,' the 1957 production of 'Rigoletto' as Duke, and the 1961 Production of 'La Traviata,' appears here as The Duke in the opera''Rigoletto.''

Dates: 1958

Joseph Folmer, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0045.0006.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Joseph Folmer, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Remendado in the opera 'Carmen.'

Dates: 1959

Joseph Folmer, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0045.0006.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Joseph Folmer, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Remendado in the opera 'Carmen.'

Dates: 1959

Joseph Folmer, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0045.0006.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Joseph Folmer, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Remendado in the opera 'Carmen.'

Dates: 1959

Joseph Folmer, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0045.0006.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Joseph Folmer, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Remendado in the opera 'Carmen.'

Dates: 1959

Joseph Folmer, 1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0045.0006.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Joseph Folmer, a tenor singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Remendado in the opera 'Carmen.'

Dates: 1959

Joseph Folmer Doing Makeup for ''Ariadne'', 1954

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0068.0008.00008
Abstract

Joseph Folmer does his makeup before the 1954 Central City Opera production of ''Ariadne auf Naxos.''

Dates: 1954

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