Posts Tagged ‘Fort Worth Opera’
Big Tops
Fort Worth Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos is a glorious treat.LEONARD EUREKA
Operas by Richard Strauss aren’t staged that often, not because they’re unpopular but because they’re expensive: enormous casts, huge orchestras, lavish scenery and costumes, and some of the most treacherous vocal writing...
Glory Denied, Daughter Roll
Fort Worth Opera Festival continues with two totally different works.ANTHONY MARIANI and EDWARD BROWN
For this year’s requisite dose of comedy, Fort Worth Opera went with Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment, a mid-19th-century bel canto piece about a young orphan girl who is raised by a ragtag group of soldiers in The ...
Vocal Majority
Strong singing kicks off Fort Worth Opera’s 2013 festival.LEONARD EUREKA
There was no pressure for Sean Panikkar Saturday night –– after all, he was just singing the same role that Placido Domingo and Stephen Costello sang here before, just as their careers were taking off. But the Sri Lankan te...
Opera Festival Time
BIG TICKETThe annual Fort Worth Opera Festival is back. Taking place mostly at Bass Performance Hall over the next several weeks starting this weekend, the event will feature a mix of old and new operas, including Puccini’s La Bohème,...
A Newbie Night at the Opera
Hannibal Lecter and Transformers: looking at opera through fresh eyes.Anthony Mariani
I liked Fort Worth Opera’s Tosca so much I made my friends go see it. I didn’t really make them go, but I did talk two rock musicians and a Fort Worth Weekly sales rep into humoring me. They didn’t all turn into overnight...
Loving Tosca
Fort Worth Opera begins its annual festival with a cannon shot.Anthony Mariani
Fort Worth Opera kicked off its 2012 festival on Saturday at Bass Performance Hall with a performance of Puccini’s Tosca, a three-act work that epitomizes grand opera: lots of romance, politics, art, violence, and death. And ...
Jerry Jones Meets Mozart
Jimmy FowlerAs an arts writer and default arts advocate, I’m supposed to smile and applaud the announcement that, on April 28, the Dallas Opera will simulcast a free performance of The Magic Flute on a 72 foot, high def screen in Cowboys...
Beat It to FWO’s Hyrdogen Jukebox Next Year
Anthony MarianiIn my recent review of Fort Worth Opera’s production of composer Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls, I mention that the company’s 2011 festival will feature Hydrogen Jukebox, a collaboration between post-classical/Minimali...
Fort Worth Opera Reality TV Show?
Anthony MarianiA reality TV show about Fort Worth Opera may become a, um, reality. A behind-the-scenes series about the company, Lone Star Opera, has just won CableU’s Non-Fiction Emerging Producer Contest as part of the 2010 National Assoc...
Fort Worth Opera Lassos ‘Celebs’
Jeff PrinceFort Worth Opera asked local celebrities to sing “Jingle Bells” in an off-key manner as part of a “Stop Bad Singing” campaign. This is hoped to encourage people to give money to the opera and, I suppose, to enco...