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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:

Unknown Performer From 1937 Season, 1967

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0084.0001.00008
Abstract

Black and white photograph of an unknown female performer from an unknown production during the 1967 Festival Season at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1967

Valerie Masterson

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0002.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Valerie Masterson, a soprano singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during th 1968 season. Masterson performed as Yum-Yum in 'The Mikado,' as Elsie Maynard in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Mabel in 'the Pirates of Penzance.'

Dates: 1930-1969

Valerie Masterson in an Unidentified Production

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0002.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Valerie Masterson, a soprano singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during th 1968 season. Masterson performed as Yum-Yum in 'The Mikado,' as Elsie Maynard in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Mabel in 'the Pirates of Penzance', appears in an unidentified production.

Dates: 1930-1969

Valerie Masterson in ''The Mikado''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0002.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Valerie Masterson, a soprano singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during th 1968 season. Masterson performed as Yum-Yum in 'The Mikado,' as Elsie Maynard in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Mabel in 'the Pirates of Penzance', appears as Yum-Yum in the opera ''The Mikado.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Valerie Masterson in ''The Pirates of Penzance''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0002.00005
Abstract

Portrait of Valerie Masterson, a soprano singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during th 1968 season. Masterson performed as Yum-Yum in 'The Mikado,' as Elsie Maynard in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Mabel in 'the Pirates of Penzance', appears as Mabel in the opera ''The Pirates of Penzance.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Valerie Masterson in ''the Yeomen of the Guard''

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0056.0002.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Valerie Masterson, a soprano singer from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who performed with the Central City Opera during th 1968 season. Masterson performed as Yum-Yum in 'The Mikado,' as Elsie Maynard in 'the Yeoman of the Guard,' and as Mabel in 'the Pirates of Penzance', appears as Elsie Maynard in the opera ''The Yeomen of the Guard.''

Dates: 1930-1969

Vera Brynner, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0012.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Vera Brynner, an opera singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Saffi in the 1957 production of "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Vera Brynner, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0012.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Vera Brynner, an opera singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Saffi in the 1957 production of "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Vera Brynner, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0012.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Vera Brynner, an opera singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Saffi in the 1957 production of "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

Vera Brynner, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0038.0012.00004
Abstract

Portrait of Vera Brynner, an opera singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Saffi in the 1957 production of "The Gypsy Baron."

Dates: 1957

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