Top Arts: In 2024, the Dallas Arts District is finally crowned the best in America
I moved to Dallas in October 2009, the same month and year that the AT&T Performing Arts Center opened.
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From ‘Ring’ to ‘Resurrection’: Dallas Symphony’s Ambitious Season
No doubt about it, the big event of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s coming season arrives near the start: Music director Fabio Luisi and company, going where no U.S. orchestra has gone in decades, will perform Richard Wagner’s epic The Ring of the Nibelung.
Doing it all: Performing Arts Houston offers a big tent of arts experiences
“Zero constraints” that’s how Performing Arts Houston executive director Meg Booth describes the programming possibilities when the organization puts together a season lineup like the recently announced 2024-2025 season.
Amadigi Speaks to the Heart at Ars Lyrica Houston
Ars Lyrica presented the Houston debut of a rarely heard Handel opera this weekend at Zilkha Hall (May 24-25, 2024), exactly 309 years after its sensational premiere at the King’s Theatre in London in 1715.
Fresh Revivals & New Stories: Broadway Across Texas
While the 2023-2024 Broadway touring season still has big productions left for Texas cities, we’ve also entered our favorite time of year, season announcement season.
Unexpected Interactions: Texas Performing Arts offers a revamp of the audience experience
Arts lovers headed to performances know the drill: Enter the theater, settle into your seat and wait for the house lights to go down. Musicians, actors or dancers materialize onstage, and your adventure begins.
People First: ROCO Celebrates 20 Years of Fostering a Culture of Connection
Let’s do the numbers. Houston’s premiere chamber orchestra ROCO will have reached a staggering 150 world premieres by the end of its 20th season.
Texas New Music Festival Celebrates New Works
Texas New Music Festival (TNMF) is the brainchild of Chad Robinson, Founder and Artistic Director of the Texas New Music Ensemble (TNME).
Consumed by Love: Houston Grand Opera’s New Season of Romance and Passion
“What is it about opera that keeps everybody thinking in a romantic frame of mind?” That’s a question Khori Dastoor, General Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera (HGO), pondered while deciding the theme for HGO’s 2024-25 season.
Love, Power and Gold: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performs Wagner’s Epic Ring Cycle
If you take it at face value, it’s an epic tale of gods and gnomes, fighting over a gold ring that confers supreme power over the world. But there’s a more compelling way to look at The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle.
Houston Symphony Expands for the Strauss Festival
The Houston Symphony will end its season with a splash: a two-weekend festival devoted to Richard Strauss, whose name is practically synonymous with sonic spectacle.
Fire Music: Loop38 makes an impact with new music for our times
As the largest wildfire in Texas history raged across the Panhandle in March of this year, Loop38, the Houston-based new music ensemble, was set to begin a multi-day residency at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) centered on the premiere of composer Ben Morris’s multimedia work Longleaf.