Monthly Archive "August2010"
“South Pacific” Paulo on Your Screen!
In anticipation of the Dallas Opera’s exciting season opener, Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI starring Tony Award-winner Paulo Szot, we’d like you to have a chance to fall in love with the Brazilian baritone in his signature role of “Emile de Becque,” the good-guy French planter in Rogers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC, before just plain falling for [...]
Butterflies Over Santa Fe
Those unlucky enough to have missed the Dallas Opera’s outstanding season finale, “Madame Butterfly,” are getting something of a second chance at Santa Fe where two of the four leads are currently starring in the latest version of Puccini’s classic heartbreaker. Once again, according to Dallas Morning News Classical Music Critic Scott Cantrell, tenor Brandon [...]
The First Step is a You-Know-What
From the Salzburg Festival, rave reviews for Bulgarian director Vera Nemirova’s outlandish-yet-nuanced vision of Alban Berg’s “Lulu.” Evidently a certain amount of audience participation paid off, at least when the characters were pitching fake 500 Euro bills to delighted patrons. Get the lowdown from “The New York Times” Anthony Tommasini. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Dir. Media & [...]
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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
