Arts
Shapes and Light
GalleryThis weekend is your last chance to catch the gallery show at Rose Marine Theater
Mad Margot
A new opera made for a note-filled and notable weekend.Stage
Even in the most opera-crazed cities on earth — New York, London, Milan, Vienna — the world premiere of a new full-length opera is not something that happens every week.
Holy Water
Though more like a rehearsal than a finished performance, FWO’s production of Rossini’s Petite Mass Solennelle offered sparkling musicality.Stage
A performance last Saturday of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle was a change of pace from the traditional fare that makes up the bulk of the current Fort Worth Opera festival.
Memoir of a Geisha
Fort Worth Opera’s Madame Butterfly falls short, but has some fantastic pieces.Stage
The wait is over. It’s been 14 months since we’ve staged an opera,” said Fort Worth Opera director Darren Keith Woods, who could scarcely contain himself. “I’m so excited!” he burst out.
The Art of the Botanical
GalleryFirehouse Gallery’s show has a title long enough to take up all of this space, so we’ll just tell you that it’s heavy on realistically rendered images of nature (mostly flowers) in various media by a long list of artists.
True Grit
As a forthcoming Modern exhibit indicates, there’s little middle ground in contemporary art today.Kultur
Next month, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth mounts a solo exhibit by Ron Mueck, the Australian artist whose hyper-realist figurative sculptures come about as close to defining contemporary art’s purpose as possible.
On Site
Thanks to a web forum, and one crotchety wonk, the architecture debate that won’t die returns. Aggghhhhh!Kultur
In response to one of my recent columns, about the aggressive architecting of Big D (“Alarming Heights,” April 11), the forum at John Roberts’ award-winning FortWorthArchitecture.com lit up.
Wonderful
Texas Ballet Theater’s take on a classic fairytale gets high marks.Stage
Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland has been adapted a number of times in a number of ways, including dance — but not always well.
Rainmakers Workshop and Daniel Bozhkov
GalleryThe Bulgarian-born artist Daniel Bozhkov just completed a rainwater catchment system for UNT’s Environmental Education Building.