A Night of Opera at Cowboy Stadium
The Dallas Opera, ampoule in partnership with Cowboys Stadium, has just announce that more than 25,000 tickets to the Dallas Opera’s...
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Dissecting the Opera-tion
You would think that the worlds of opera and theater would be entwined; they have so much in common. They both present staged productions that use actors, singers, sets, costumes, directors, lighting, and even orchestras and conductors. They both tell dramatized stories by peeling back the fourth wall [...]
Dallas Theater Center Takes On a ‘Giant’ Project
In more than two decades, online Michael John LaChiusa has been one of our most prolific composers for...
ARTifacts: February 2013
The Dallas Opera has announced that Broadway legend and Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning director, producer, playwright, and lyricist Jack O’Brien has been engaged to direct the company’s world premiere production of Great Scott, a new, full-length opera by acclaimed American composer Jake Heggie (Moby-Dick) [...]
Review: “The Lighthouse”
“The Lighthouse” Dallas Opera March 16-18, 2012 “Opera” is one of those terms, like “classical music,” that poorly serves to describe an entire world of artistic endeavor. Writers strive in vain to define the difference between opera and Broadway shows when opera companies produce [...]
Dramalog: News from the Stage Feb 2012
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the classic film “Casablanca” to be shown at the Dallas Symphony to a live soundtrack. Composer Jake Heggie is working on a new modern opera to premeiere in 2015 at Dallas Opera. Marc Engel steps into a high-profile role as Director of Entertainment and Event Services for the AT&T Performing Arts Center. [...]
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.
Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater
Back in pre-pandemic 2020, B. Moore Dance company founder Bridget Moore signed on as choreographer for the Second Thought Theatre’s production of Lynn Nottage’s play Mlima's Tale.
A Closer Look: Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into new venues for its 9th season
Of all the changes to come out of the pandemic, having an audience be closer to its performers is not one many dance groups anticipated. But Katie Puder, Avant Chamber Ballet’s artistic director, is thrilled with this outcome for her company.
Dancing on a Lake and Other Pandemic Miracles
If 2020 into 2021 was the ultimate annus horribilis, the year really became the worst of times for that most ephemeral and impermanent of arts, live performance.
