Sixteen Strings
Anatomy of a String Quartet Playing in a string quartet is probably about as difficult as performing neurosurgery....
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Newer Works Highlight Opera Season
The Dallas Opera is returning to four mainstage productions for the company’s 2013-2014 season in the Margot and...
Review: Bon Appétit!
A presentation of Dallas Opera at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Demonstration Kitchen February 9, cialis 2013 At the...
Cupid Unites Poetry and Music
Orchestra of New Spain is planning a special Valentine’s concert that will transport audiences to the romantic period...
The Con is On
The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can lands in Fair Park February 12. This swanky new musical about contemporary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. is the 2013 season opener for the Dallas Summer Musicals. Based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, the songwriting duo Marc Shaiman [...]
Review: Verdi’s Macbeth
Heavy is the head that wears the crown—especially when you murdered your predecessor. Set in post-apocalyptic Scotland, Opera in the Heights’ production of Verdi’s Macbeth captures something new in Shakespeare’s classic from neon purple, lime, and yellow-wigged witches to shopping carts and barbed wire. Pulled off with passion, Macbeth [...]
Honeymoons on The Bayou
Conducting affairs with HTown’s Orchestras It’s finally official: After a three year search and on the eve of its Centennial Season, the Houston Symphony has named 35-year old conductor Adrés Orozco-Estrada as its next Music Director. Born in Columbia and trained in Vienna, Orozoco-Estrada hasn’t yet conducted most of the world’s [...]
Bass Notes
Da Camera brings Christian McBride to the Cullen On Friday February 8th at 8:00 pm, Da Camera Houston...
SMU Awards Annual Prize
The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University has announced the recipients of its fourth annual Meadows Prize arts residency – violist Nadia Sirota and interdisciplinary artist Tania Bruguera. The Meadows Prize is awarded to pioneering artists and scholars with an emerging international profile, active in a discipline [...]
Cowboys of Color
Fort Worth’s Jubilee Theatre creates Black Spurs, a new musical about cowboys of color on the Chisholm Trail....
Flash Chat: Matthew Dirst of Ars Lyrica
Ars Lyrica takes us to Vienna for a special New Year’s celebration on December 31, 2012, 9 p.m. at Zilka Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, featuring featuring two rising stars of the opera stage – soprano Lauren Snouffer and countertenor John Holiday. An elegant gala and [...]