Review: Bon Appétit!
A presentation of Dallas Opera at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Demonstration Kitchen February 9, cialis 2013 At the...
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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 [...]
The Magic of Mozart
The Dallas Symphony showcases two weekends with music by everyone’s favorite composer Mozart’s birthday is January 27. (He’ll...
Outstanding Voices
Three Singers Make a Home in Houston The edges of my chiffon gown tickle the red carpet and my lofty, leopard print shoes lift me onto the escalators at the Wortham Theater Center. Surrounded by the soaring whimsy of Albert Paley’s ribbon-like sculptures, I imagine the ensuing [...]