First and Goal

Yes, there’s still time to sign on the dotted line and ensure your FREE reserved seat or seats for the Dallas Opera’s April 28th 7:30 pm simulcast of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at Cowboys Stadium!  More details from Rodger Jones at “The Dallas Morning News” about your chance to, as he succinctly put it, “get something free [...]

Buy Your Ticket but Hold the Applause

Keep your hands to yourselves – if only for a moment. That’s the opening salvo of Classical Music Critic Scott Cantrell’s piece published in today’s edition of “The Dallas Morning News,” on the new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” opening tomorrow night (Thursday) at an uncharacteristically early hour: 7:00 PM, and the code of...

Talk About Projecting!

Check out the latest from “Theater Jones” and Gregory Sullivan Isaacs as we prepare for Thursday’s Opening of the Dallas Opera’s new production of “Tristan & Isolde. Some of the visuals during last night’s dress rehearsal literally took my breath away. I really think we’re in for a phenomenal ride! But I digress. Projections Designer [...]

“Oh, Captain, My Captain!”

Illness has forced tenor Ben Heppner to cancel his appearance in Tuesday evening’s performance of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Moby-Dick” at the San Diego Civic Center. Jay Hunter Morris, who sang the role of Captain Ahab in an earlier production of the work in Adelaide, Australia, will step-in for the ailing singer. Hunter had [...]

Visiting Wagner’s Bayreuth – and...

Be sure to catch the latest “Off the Cuff,” a regular feature from Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny, on the arts website, “Theater Jones.” In this installment, you get a Cerny-vision view of the festival theater constructed by Richard Wagner at Bayreuth – let’s face it, the Wagnerian equivalent of the Vatican [...]

Meryl Streep: the Diva Who Might Have Been

Oh, what might have been! Can you imagine that if Meryl Streep had had the vocal chops and desire to forge a serious opera career–with her phenomenal acting abilities and beauty–what sort of megastar she might have become? Read more on the L.A. Times ”Culture Monster” about Streep’s early opera training and its impact on her [...]