Articles Posted in the Music Category
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Fort Worth Opera Presents a Hit in Heggie’s “Three Decembers”
Once again, the Fort Worth Opera Company presents a world-class chamber opera that could be the highlight of the season. Part of Darren Woods’ mission is to present new chamber opera works of this nature each year, and if Hydrogen Jukebox last year, and this year’s Three Decembers by Jake Heggie are any sort of indicators, [...]
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Fort Worth Opera Festival “Leaps” to a Grand Start With Tosca
If the Fort Worth Opera wanted to make an immediate impression about how this year’s festival was going to go, they chose the right opera for Opening Night. Immediately at the lift of the curtain the audience was given a delight for the eyes. The striking sets, which were the tallest in the company’s history, [...]
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Fort Worth Opera Festival Kicks Off This Weekend!
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” Woops, that’s supposed to be for Christmas…Well, actually, we’re sticking to it. And why not? The Fort Worth Opera Festival is practically the “Hap, happiest, season of all” when it comes to the Arts in Fort Worth! Saturday, May 12 marks the Opening Night of the Sixth [...]
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Magic Flute gives a Magical Opera Experience to the DFW Community
You would think that the idea of how “different” of an opera experience the Cowboys Stadium Simulcast was going to be, would be evident while you’re sitting in parking traffic going to a football stadium — but it wasn’t until the moment I was getting my ticket scanned while looking at a football field as [...]
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The Bunny, The Moon and Me
Sadly, I did not grow up with The Runaway Bunny or Goodnight Moon. I’m sure I’d be a happier, more well adjusted person now had I read Margaret Wise Brown’s masterpieces as a toddler—but then I might not have embraced these two books with the fervor I did, discovering them in my middle age. The [...]
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Four Composers Talk About Art Songs
Four composers: Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lowell Leibermann and Glen Roven, all had songs on Daniel Okulitch’s album, Daniel Okulitch: The New American Art Song. Mr. Okulitch was also accompanied by each composer. As all the composers were in a room together, we took the opportunity to ask them all about the art of [...]
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Art and Opera at Cowboys Stadium
In anticipation of Saturday’s Cowboys Stadium Simulcast of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, The Dallas Opera hosted a short media gathering with co-organizer representatives Gene Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and General Director/CEO of The Dallas Opera Keith Cerny. Both talked about how excited they were to use the medium to bring opera to the masses [...]
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Armide
Hello Everyday Opera Fashionistas, I’m delighted to give you a sneak peek at the latest gem from Opera Atelier: its newest revitalization of Lully’s Armide. The final tragédie en musique, opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and librettist Philippe Quinault based on Torquato Tasso’s poemLa Gerusalemme liberate. This luscious production, of the 17th century masterpiece, (which I feel [...]
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The “Awesome Aussie” – Stuart Skelton
When I called him via Skype, I naturally called Stuart Skelton “The Awesome Aussie” without pre-planning it and now I’m going to go with it! It fits him well. He is acknowledged as one of the finest heldentenors of his generation, being critically acclaimed for his outstanding musicianship, tonal beauty and intensely dramatic portrayals. He had [...]
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Myrtò Papatanasiu takes Dallas’ “Fallen Woman” Over the Top
From the initial rise of the curtain on La Traviata, the Dallas audience knew they were in for a lavish affair. To say the production from the Florida Grand Opera was beautiful would be quite the understatement. But as grandiose as the sets were, for a story like La Traviata they were in perfect taste, [...]
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