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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:

Elemer Nagy

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957.

Dates: 1930-1969

Elemer Nagy, 1957

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957.

Dates: 1957

Elemer Nagy

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00003
Abstract

Portrait of Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957.

Dates: 1930-1969

Elemer Nagy

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00009
Abstract

Portrait of Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957.

Dates: 1930-1969

Elemer Nagy and Virginia MacWatters

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00005
Abstract

Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957, shows a costume drawing to Virginia MacWatters.

Dates: 1930-1969

Elemer Nagy and Women at the Piano

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00004
Abstract

Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera from 1949-1957, and two unidentified women work at the piano.

Dates: 1930-1969

Elemer Nagy looking at Sketches

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0057.0014.00006
Abstract

Donald Oenslager shows Elemer Nagy, a stage director and set designer who worked with the Central City Opera, and Shirley Emmons various sketches.

Dates: 1930-1969

Elinor Warren

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0065.0008.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Elinor Warren, a mezzo-soprano singer who performed with the Central City Opera as Marcellina in the 1952 production of "The Marriage of Figaro."

Dates: 1930-1969

'Elixir of Love' 1961, 1961

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0001
Abstract

This folder contains photographs from the production of 'The Elixir of Love' performed at the Central City Opera House during the 1961 seasons.

Dates: 1961

Elizabeth Allen Head Shot

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0071.0001.00014
Abstract

Portrait of Elizabeth Allen who played Stephanie in the 1967 Central City productin of 'Cactus Flower.'

Dates: 1967

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Theater 760
Performing arts 92
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Opera festivals 30
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Photographic prints 28
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Reports 22
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Photographic postcards 13
Ballet 12
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