Amy Bishop

This fall, The Dallas Opera launches its fifth residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors Oct. 27-Nov. 9—designed to help female opera conductors take their careers to the next level.

The audience members at the Meyerson Symphony Center had no idea what an adventure the oboist onstage had on her way in to work that night.

When the Dallas City Performance Hall (now Moody Performance Hall) opened its doors to the public in 2012, it also opened the doors of opportunity to a number of mid-sized arts groups in need of a right-sized venue. And so begins the story of the Dallas Chamber Symphony.

It’s likely that no one in the seats of the UT Arlington Planetarium had ever been to a choral concert like this one.