After attending part of yesterday afternoon’s rehearsal for the Dallas opera’s production of Tristan, I went over and watched the first two acts of the dress rehearsal for SMU’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, which is being given this weekend in the Bob Hope Theater on the SMU campus.
From what I saw and heard, it would be well worth your trying to fit it into your weekend plans. The more...
As the year ends at “Theater Jones,” critic Gregory Sullivan Isaacs selected the Dallas Opera’s 2011 revival of Verdi’s...
It’s always eye-opening to hear from first-time operagoers, particularly when they go into detail about their expectations versus their actual...
A new work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies for the Juilliard School got off with a bang last week. Heidi Waleson, writing for “The...
Seriously, there are lots of reasons to subscribe to the Dallas Opera but the perks this year seem, to me, some of the best ever. Especially the...
After attending part of yesterday afternoon’s rehearsal for the Dallas opera’s production of Tristan, I went over and watched the first two acts...
As many of you already know, the Dallas Opera gives fully staged opera performances for school children across North Texas. In 2009, the company gave...
A friend recently asked me about how I got started collecting masks (I have almost 300 of them now, mostly African, Asian and Oceanic, but I also...
As we gear up for rehearsals to begin for Tristan, it may be my last chance to muse about Sunday evening’s Golden Globe Awards before rehearsals...
The Dallas Museum of Art has a great deal for our patrons: Hear Angela Mannino (Papagena in The Magic Flute) and Andrew Bidlack (Sandy/Officer 1 in...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Calvin 214.443.1014/suzanne.calvin@dallasopera.org Or Megan Meister...
Yes, as suspected, the announcement that the Dallas Opera and Cowboys Stadium have partnered for an April 28th live simulcast of Mozart’s...
To paraphrase KERA reporter/producer Jerome Weeks: You can’t ask much more from an opera…announcement. Donors and members of the Dallas...
Do check out General Director and CEO Keith Cerny’s brand new monthly column on “Theater Jones.” His first installment...
I hope you caught the Christmas Day article on Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny by respected “Dallas Morning News”...
One way and another, I seem to spend quite a lot of time in my car, and I make a special point of bringing along interesting CDs to listen to. ...
This interview of Keith Cerny by Gregory Sullivan Isaacs first appeared in this month’s “Arts + Culture Magazine”…now, in...
Theodora February 23 (Denton) and 24 (Dallas) at 7:30 p.m. Ava Pine, Theodora * Ryland Angel, Didymus Richard Croft, Septimius * Jeffrey Snider,...
Knowing how tremendously hard tenor Ben Heppner worked to create the role of Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s world premiere...
Yes, as suspected, the announcement that the Dallas Opera and Cowboys Stadium have partnered for an April 28th live simulcast of Mozart’s...
