Dallas Opera’s Season of Celebration
The Dallas Opera commemorates a handful of anniversaries next season, and the most notable involves one of your not-so-catchy numbers.
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Texas Studio: Adrian Esparza
“There are associations that come with the use of a sarape, especially now with recent political and economic border issues,” says Adrian Esparza, referring to the brightly colored, blanket-like shawls from Latin America that inform and compose much of his work as well as the constant issue of the Mexican-American border, in which Texas is often found at the center.
Fort Worth Opera Festival Kicks off with ‘Porgy and Bess’
Thanks to his boundless optimism, the hero of Porgy and Bess is one of opera’s most lovable characters. Porgy needs all the hope he can summon, because he often contends with the weaknesses and errors of others--especially those of his beloved Bess.
Dallas Symphony’s Soluna Festival Thinks Big
Why does the Dallas Symphony mount its annual Soluna music-and-arts festival? Not because it wants to escape the proverbial same old thing. For an orchestra, “the ‘same old’ is fantastic,” president Kim Noltemy says. With Soluna, the group is thinking bigger.
A Playwright Rises: Jonathan Norton takes up residence at Dallas Theater Center
At the beginning of 2019, Dallas Theater Center announced Jonathan Norton as its new playwright in residence, but the history between the two actually goes back much farther:
Painting Toward Intimacy: Jonas Wood at Dallas Museum of Art
There’s an intimacy that comes with looking at painting, Jonas Wood tells me.
The Company Model on Texas Stages
The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.
Rescue Music: DSO Oboist Erin Hannigan’s Artists for Animals
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.
Texas Lens: Finding My Voice
My name is Agostina Migoni and I am an opera singer. My grandfather, who lived with us during my childhood, was also an opera singer and my first music teacher, so I feel that my career path was determined pretty early on.
Salon and Culture Jack bring New Artists and Ideas Together in Dallas
This is French Room Salon and Culture Jack, two distinctly different series of art events, both gifted to Dallas towards the end of 2018. Although varied in format and feel, both series bring people together in close proximity, where they are subject to new art and ideas on a monthly basis.
Dallas Chamber Symphony Finds its Niche
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.
Catching up with North Texas Theater: A Conversation with Lindsey Wilson
Lindsey Wilson is hands down one of the most prolific theater writers in Texas.