‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ world premiere finally arrives in The Dallas Opera’s new season
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly celebrates the power of the human spirit when it faces a cataclysm.
Steven Brown
Wagner, Mahler, Mozart and more: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Epic New Season
The challenge is so great that no U.S. orchestra has pulled it off in recent decades: a concert-hall presentation of Richard Wagner’s four-opera epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. But the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is taking it on.
Victoria Bach Festival Promises a Wide-Ranging Lineup
The Victoria Bach Festival is heading towards the half-century mark.
Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future
After taking the helm at The Cliburn, which runs the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Jacques Marquis looked back across the contest’s winners and noticed a pattern.
Future Stars: Young Texas Artists Music Competition Highlights Up and Coming Talent
Launched in 1993 as a showcase for a single performer, it has evolved into an annual contest that offers $40,000 in prize money to aspiring musicians aged 18 to 32.
Wonders of the Wetlands: University of Texas at El Paso Project Unleashes the Creativity of Students and Residents
The park in El Paso covers 372 acres running right up to the Rio Grande, and it gives many visitors a big surprise.
Pulling it All Together: Cutting Edge Music Programming at Texas Performing Arts
As everybody knows, the University of Texas at Austin has transformed its hometown thanks to its role as a hotbed of research. There’s more to that than churning out innovations in computers and technology.
An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’
For all the glories of Carmen, La Boheme, Aida and the like, opera companies sometimes want to tackle a work that’s out-of-the-ordinary: Call it a statement opera. The urge came upon The Dallas Opera before the pandemic.
Global Thinking: Dallas Opera Livestreams Main Stage Productions
For a decade, The Dallas Opera has periodically invaded the Cowboys’ home turf—literally.
Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach
Nobody expected the Houston Chamber Choir’s season opener to tie in with the news of the world.
Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season
The Houston Symphony’s new music director, Juraj Valčuha, acknowledged that opening the season with a requiem may strike some as “a strange idea.” But Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is no ordinary setting of the mass for the dead.
Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season
When the Apollo Chamber Players made its debut, grand visions of the future had nothing to do with it. The quartet, violinist Matthew Detrick recalls, had one simple goal: “to do that first concert.”