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The Dallas Opera Is Proud to Announce A Major New Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Calvin (214.443.1014/suzanne.calvin@dallasopera.org) Or Megan Meister (214.443.1071/megan.meister@dallasopera.org) The Dallas Opera Is Proud to Announce A Major New [...]
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
After the matinee on Sunday of Handel’s SEMELE, bizarrely, but not unattractively transported to ancient China, and wonderfully well sung by Jane Archibald and Bill Burden, I had a full day of auditions on Monday. Among the group of established and distinguished Canadian singers who sang for me, there were also some younger singers who [...]
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
I arrived yesterday afternoon in Toronto for a Saturday performance that oddly began at 4:30 in the afternoon. Apparently this is one of the Canadian Opera Company’s most popular subscription series, and I must confess that I like the idea of it starting late enough in the day to run my Saturday errands and still [...]
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
Congratulations are due to Michael Kahn, who directed our wonderful production of Romeo and Juliet last season, on being recognized by the Tony Awards Committee. Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre is to receive this year’s Regional Theatre Award at the televised ceremony next month, and Michael has been the artistic director of that company since it [...]
The Running of the Bulls by Jonathan Pell
I need a statistician to figure the odds! At last night’s opening night party following the first performance of The Magic Flute I discovered something truly extraordinary about three members of our cast. Next Saturday, which happens to be the simulcast of Magic Flute to Cowboys Stadium is Caitlyn Lynch’s birthday. Caitlyn sings the role [...]
Artistic Director Jonathan Pell: Ailyn Perez 2012 Richard Tucker Winner
I just had a very excited Ailyn Perez on the telephone informing me that she is this year’s winner of the Richard Tucker Award ! This $30,000 prize is the operatic equivalent of winning the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award all rolled into one ! Her husband, Stephen Costello, [...]
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
I was in Denton at the University of North Texas on Monday and Tuesday working with some of the very talented students pursuing graduate degrees in voice. I did this two years ago, and was asked back by Stephen Dubberly and Paula Homer to select this year’s recipient of the bi-annual Winspear Opera Scholarship. It [...]
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
Well, I can start to breathe again. Last Friday morning when I arrived in the office at 8:00 a.m. I found a deeply distressing e-mail from Myrtò Papatanasiu’s manager in Italy, informing me that there had been an accident on stage during a performance of Rusalka at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on [...]
“La traviata” Comes to TDO!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Calvin (214.443.1014/suzanne.calvin@dallasopera.org) Or Megan Meister (214.443.1071/megan.meister@dallasopera.org) THE DALLAS OPERA IS PROUD TO PRESENT GIUSEPPE VERDI’S POIGNANT 1853 MASTERPIECE LA TRAVIATA LIBRETTO BY FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE ~~~~ STARRING GREEK SOPRANO MYRTÒ PAPATANASIU IN HER AMERICAN DEBUT AS VIOLETTA, AMERICAN TENOR JAMES VALENTI AS ALFREDO, AND FRENCH BARITONE [...]
A Week in the Life – And One to Remember Always!
Latonia Moore taking a solo bow after her triumphant Metroplitan Opera debut as Verdi’s AIDA on the Saturday afternoon radio broadcast, March 3, 2012 This has been an incredibly exciting week. Saturday night’s final performance of TRISTAN was a triumphant finale to perhaps the most highly praised production at The Dallas Opera in recent memory. [...]
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Climb Every Opera
The word that the Dallas Opera has commissioned British composer Joby Talbot and American librettist Gene Scheer to tackle the world’s highest peak, metaphorically speaking, is eliciting a variety of reactions. “The Dallas Observer” writes that the still-to-be-created opera EVEREST, slated for production in February of 2015, is our “most adventurous commission to...Rollin’ Down the River
New at “Theater Jones”: the latest edition of Keith Cerny’s “Off the Cuff.” The Dallas Opera General Director and CEO takes this opportunity to explore why the placement of pieces in musical time matters. Read it right here. (Photo of Ganges River delta courtesy of loc.gov) Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media and PRTHE DALLAS OPERA PRESENTS THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2012...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 7, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Calvin (214.443.1014/suzanne.calvin@dallasopera.org) Or Megan Meister (214.443.1071/megan.meister@dallasopera.org) THE DALLAS OPERA PRESENTS THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2012 “MARIA CALLAS DEBUT ARTIST OF THE...Opera News
