UNSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
In this star-spangled month of July, the question that comes to mind is “What are the defining characteristics of an American Opera?” Should it be opera on identifiable American themes? Operas merely...
View ArticleThe Bare (or is it Awful?) Truth
Did they look something like…this? Must’ve been a good harvest that year; yes indeed--a very good harvest. “The Dallas Morning News” Classical Music Critic Scott Cantrell, while pondering a few...
View ArticleGreat Expectations
It’s always fun to be noticed and we’ve noticed that we’ve made a several note-worthy lists lately including Katie Womack’s “Dallas Observer” piece on the “Ten Must-Hear Classical Music Shows in Dallas...
View ArticleSecond Wave for AIDA
The reviews continue to roll in for the Dallas Opera’s Season Opener: AIDA, featuring an incredible ensemble cast and starring soprano Latonia Moore in the title role. Olin Chism reviewed for the...
View ArticleTHE ASPERN PAPERS Leaves Critics Awestruck
Yes, the reviews are in (some of them, anyway) and the critics seem to be uniformly knocked-out by the performances in the Dallas Opera’s 25th Anniversary revival of THE ASPERN PAPERS, which opened...
View ArticleLunching with Emmanuel
What’s not to like about doing lunch with a charming and intelligent Frenchman? Well, escargot, perhaps. The convivial company of Dallas Opera Music Director Emmanuel Villaume in Santa Fe, where he is...
View ArticleStranger in a Strange Land
But he won’t be a stranger long! Not at this rate. Check out the recent articles on the Dallas Opera’s new music director, Maestro Emmanuel Villaume in this piece by Gregory Sullivan Isaacs of “Theater...
View ArticleCrazy for Carmen
It marked her American debut so the pressure was on, but French mezzo-soprano--in two performances last weekend--showed herself more than capable of handling the heat, and generating a few extra...
View ArticleIan Bostridge at City Performance Hall
All I can tell you is, people came up to us afterwards telling us they wanted to buy tickets--immediately--to whatever was scheduled next. The reviewers revealed generally favorable reactions to the...
View ArticleThe Scott Cantrell Seal of Approval
“No opera ever composed has music more gorgeous, more sumptuous, than Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt. This is, after all, music by the man who later became famous for scores for movies...
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