TALKIN’ OPERA: The Dallas Opera has posted the video (above) from its latest Cosi and Koozies summer panel series. This one is titled “Multiculturalism: At the Heart of Moby-Dick and Madam Butterfly” and is moderated by Chris Shull, who writes for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. If you like what you see, the next discussion – [...]
GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE YOUNG: Fine arts groups everywhere are trying their best to attract a younger audience. It’s the only way to ensure a future. The Dallas Opera has a slew of events this month that aim to various degrees to educate its audience. And the Dallas Museum of Art recently unveiled a mobile [...]
Set designer Michael Yeargan — former Dallasite, Tony Award-winner, previous credits at the Dallas Opera and the Dallas Theater Center — is out for personal reasons. So to design all the rigging, planking and ship-sinking for its world premiere opera, Moby-Dick, the Dallas Opera has hired Tony nominee Robert Brill. best known for the Broadway [...]
BREAKING DOWN ‘ANGELS AND DEMONS’: The adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-seller Angels and Demons was the No. 1 movie in the country last weekend, debuting with a so-so $46 million. Those who took in the movie required the same level of belief-suspension as when they saw Angels‘ predecessor, The Da Vinci Code. But don’t take [...]
3 is a magic number: Without Stephen, anarchy reigns. Jerome beat me to the punch yesterday with the Theatre 3 season announcement. But Jerome wasn’t able to attend the Theatre 3 birthday party Wednesday evening. Which means he did not sit next to the actress Ada Lynn (photo below), a veteran of Theatre 3 performances. [...]
Following the embarrassment of the George Steel “era” and with only six months to go before the company opens at the Winspear Opera House, the Dallas Opera has promoted from within. Jonathan Pell, who has been with the opera for 24 years, now assumes the role of artistic director, a position last held by co-founder [...]
Remember George Steel? Sure you do. He was the managing director of the Dallas Opera for two minutes or so before he ran back to Manhattan to save that financial cliffhanger, New York City Opera. New York magazine now asks whether he’s the superhero for the job. (Unsurprising conclusion: Promising but too soon to tell.) [...]
Talk about an Ahab-like pursuit. There’s still more than a year before Moby-Dick premieres next April as the Dallas Opera’s big gamble, after the company moves into the Winspear Opera House this fall. And Jake Heggie is not even near finished composing what he’s been working on for years. He started on the project with [...]
During composer Jake Heggie’s recent lunch conversation with the press (which you can listen to over on the feature side), I asked whether — in preparing his opera of Moby-Dick — he had seen any of the other stage productions of Melville’s novel. No. He said he had seen the vivid but often maddening 1956 [...]
Today in the Art&Seek spotlight, we feature Jake Heggie’s local appearance for “Turning the Page: The Journey of Moby-Dick to The Dallas Opera Stage.” For more on the event: FIND: Check out the event listing on Art&Seek.org for complete information on how to attend. REACT: Did anyone make it out to see Heggie’s discussion in [...]
