Monthly Archive "May2010"

The Dallas Opera is proud to present soprano Laura Anne Ayers singing ‘Donde lieta uscì al tuo grido’ from Puccini’s LA BOHEME

Best Wishes to Seattle Opera and the Fort Worth Opera Festival!

May is certainly an exciting month for new opera! Rapidly following our “triumphant” and “stunning” premiere of Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, we want to wish our colleagues in Seattle and Fort Worth all the best on their upcoming premieres. Amelia, a new opera by composer Daron Aric Hagen, librettist Gardner McFall, and Dramaturg [...]
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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





