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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:

Ralph Herbert, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0004.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Herbert, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera as Zsupan in the opera ''The Gypsy Baron'' and as Monterone in the opera ''Rigoletto.''

Dates: 1961

Ralph Herbert, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0004.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Herbert, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1961

Ralph Herbert, 1961

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0049.0004.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Herbert, a baritone singer from the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1961

Ralph Mason

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0001.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Mason, a performer withe D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1968 season. Mason performed as Ralph Rackstraw in 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' as leonard Meryll in 'Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Earl Tolloller in ' Iolanthe.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Ralph Mason and Christine Palmerin 'H.M.S. Pinafore', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0005.00002
Abstract

Photograph of Christine palmer (front, right) as Little Buttercup and Donald Adams (front, center) and Ralph Mason (front, center) as Ralph Rackstraw in a scene from the 1968 D'Oyly Carte Opera Company production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' at the central City Opera House in central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1968

Ralph Mason and Christine Palmerin 'H.M.S. Pinafore', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0075.0005.00003
Abstract

Photograph of a scene from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' at the central City Opera House in central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1968

Ralph Mason in an Unidentified Production

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0001.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Mason, a performer withe D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1968 season. Mason performed as Ralph Rackstraw in 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' as leonard Meryll in 'Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Earl Tolloller in ' Iolanthe', appears in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1930-1969

Ralph Mason in ''Iolanthe'', 1968

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0001.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Mason, a performer withe D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1968 season. Mason performed as Ralph Rackstraw in 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' as leonard Meryll in 'Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Earl Tolloller in ' Iolanthe', appears as Lord Tolloller in the opera ''Iolanthe.''

Dates: 1968

Ralph Mason in ''Iolanthe''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0001.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Ralph Mason, a performer withe D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who worked with the Central City Opera during the 1968 season. Mason performed as Ralph Rackstraw in 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' as leonard Meryll in 'Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Earl Tolloller in ' Iolanthe', appears as Lord Tolloller in the opera ''Iolanthe.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Ralph Neff

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0015.00001
Abstract

Photograph of Ralph Neff, an actor who performed in the 1958 production of "...And Perhaps Happiness."

Dates: 1930-1969

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