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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:

Central City Opera House, between 1932-2008

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0035.0001.00017
Abstract

Interior view of the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. People sit around a piano with music in their hands.

Dates: between 1932-2008

Central City Opera House, between 1932-2008

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0035.0001.00018
Abstract

Interior view of the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. People sit with music in their hands and sing. The back of the conductor can be seen.

Dates: between 1932-2008

Central City Opera House, between 1932-2008

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0035.0001.00019
Abstract

Interior view of the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. People sit around a piano with music in their hands and sing.

Dates: between 1932-2008

Central City Opera House, between 1932-2008

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0035.0001.00020
Abstract

Interior view of the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. A man sits before a short table with music on it.

Dates: between 1932-2008

Central City Opera House, between 1932-2008

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0035.0001.00022
Abstract

Two men look over accounts on a table in an ornate room in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: between 1932-2008

Central City Opera House Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: M123
Abstract The Central City Opera House Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1931 to manage and preserve the Central City Opera House located in Central City, Colorado and to direct annual summer opera festivals. Heirs of Peter McFarlane, a Central City businessman who owned the Opera House prior to 1931, donated the building to the University of Denver in 1931. The real estate holdings of the University of Denver were transferred back to the Association in 1982. The Association held...
Dates: 1931-2015

Central City Opera House Billboard - ''Othello'', 1934

 Item
Identifier: M123.01.0031.0002.00003
Abstract

Photograph of the Central City Opera House billboard advertising the 1934 production of ''Othello,'' staring Walter Huston.

Dates: 1934

Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe Wedding Celebration Scene, 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00002
Abstract

Walter Cassel and Dolores Wilson portray Horace and Baby Doe Tabor in the wedding celebration scene of a production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1956-1959

Central City Opera's the Ballad of Baby Doe, between 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00027
Abstract

Clifford Harvuot (front and left of center with mustache) appears as Horace Tabor, with Mary McMurray (Augusta Tabor) and Osie Hawkins (footman), in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: between 1956-1959

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