Monthly Archive "January2010"
From Page to Stage: The Operatic Journey of “Moby-Dick”
Alright, you landlubbers! Get ready for adventure – in collaboration with the Texas Book Festival and the Meadows School of the Arts, Division of Music. Here’s the gist of it from KERA reporter/producer Jerome Weeks (who will be making a significant contribution to this two-day program, thank you very much), as written up in today’s “Art [...]
The Other Half of the Equation
The news from Berlin’s Deutsche Oper is Schwarz…very Schwarz. Actually, on the face of things, it sounds like a “can’t miss” partnership with Music Director Donald Runnicles. Time will tell but we certainly wish them the best of luck in their artistic endeavors. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media & PR, The Dallas Opera
On the Other Hand…
Not everybody can remain youthful and nubile…full of nubilosity and nubility… Anyway… Many great, great singers are “women of a certain age” and that has stirred a hornet’s nest in Rome where 52-year-old Italian soprano Daniela Dessi walked off a production of “La traviata” after noted stage director (and Dallas Opera alum) Franco Zeffirelli supposedly [...]
No “Park and Bark” Allowed
It’s an altogether different era in opera: Buff bodies, sprinting singers, fine actors and actresses adorning the world’s greatest stages and bringing opera to life as never before. Two of the best of the current crop have acquired a real fan base here in Dallas: sopranos Susanna Phillips (our long-suffering Countess Almaviva in “The Marriage [...]
Man About NY Town
A familiar face still hanging around those rooftop garrets. Photographer Dario Acosta’s take on tenor James Valenti (better known to Dallas Opera lovers as the mesmerizing poet Rodolfo in our popular 2009 revival of “La boheme.” Smashing! And he sings like a dream, too. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Dir. Media & PR
Tom Jaekels, Rest in Peace
Dallas Opera Costume Shop Manager Janet Powell was the first to bring us the heart-rending news: “It is with great sadness that I must report that we lost one of our own over the holidays. Tom Jaekels, our talented lead cutter and master wit, died Christmas day at Baylor Hospital. He had courageously battled multiple [...]
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UNT’s THEODORA making a stop at the Winspear,...
Theodora February 23 (Denton) and 24 (Dallas) at 7:30 p.m. Ava Pine, Theodora * Ryland Angel, Didymus Richard Croft, Septimius * Jeffrey Snider, Valens * Jennifer Lane, Irene Pre-concert lecture: Dr. Ruth Davis, University of Cambridge, at 6:30 p.m. A tragic tale of love, faith and virtue set in 4th century Antioch, Handel’s oratorio Theodora [...]Heppner on the Roles of a Lifetime
Knowing how tremendously hard tenor Ben Heppner worked to create the role of Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s world premiere production of “Moby-Dick” (Dallas Opera, 2010), it’s incredibly gratifying to see that the artist looks back on that difficult process–I mean, YOU try singing for a couple of hours on a peg-leg!–as [...]Proverbial Talk of the Town
Yes, as suspected, the announcement that the Dallas Opera and Cowboys Stadium have partnered for an April 28th live simulcast of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” has quickly become the talk of the town. You may select from a variety of journalistic takes on the upcoming event… From Daniel J. Wakin at “The New York Times” Classical Music [...]Opera News
