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Feature
by TDO Artistic Director Jonathan Pell
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At TheaterJones, The Dallas Opera’s artistic director Jonathan Pell writes on nurturing talent and introducing faces and voices to North Texas in 2012.
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The year 2012 at the Dallas Opera showed incredible momentum, from start to finish, with the announcements of two thrilling new commissions (Great Scott, to be composed by Jake Heggie with a libretto by multiple Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally—and Everest, to be composed by Joby Talbot with a libretto by Gene Scheer), a history-making Cowboys Stadium simulcast of Mozart's The Magic Flute, and a reinvigorated education and community outreach program which included new family concerts and performances, as well as a brand-new production of Jack and the Beanstalk (based on music by Sir Arthur Sullivan) in partnership with Dallas Children's Theater.
For me, however, the year just ending was defined by two major impulses: this company's continued commitment to discovering and nurturing emerging talent, and exploiting the many extraordinary technological advances in stagecraft.
Read more at TheaterJones >
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Megan’s Musings
moderated by Megan Meister
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I am sitting down with mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider who sang Flora in last year's crowd favorite La traviata. Amanda is performing in our TDO Family Concert with the Dallas Opera Orchestra on Saturday, February 2nd. Tickets are on sale now and are just $5!
Listen on our blog >
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From the Desk of TDO's General Director
His fourth most popular opera, Turandot, comes in at a very respectable No. 16. These operas are such a consistent hit with audiences across the globe that over the last 15 years I have been asked numerous times by Board members of half a dozen different opera companies, “Why aren’t we doing more Puccini?” In fact, some have gone so far as to suggest that an entire season be constructed entirely of his late-19th and early-20th-century masterpieces.
Read more at TheaterJones >
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Quote of the Week
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
— Victor Hugo
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Kids Quote
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
— Albert Einstein
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