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With Blood, With Ink Tackles Poet Nun’s Timeless Feminist Plight
The Fort Worth Opera Festival premieres the tale of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
By Wayne Lee Gay
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Fort Worth Opera Festival Begins Well with The Pearl Fishers
Bizet's first attempt at the form works spectacularly well in the hands of the Fort Worth Opera.
By Wayne Lee Gay
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Opera Review: How Dallas Opera’s Barber of Seville Merges the Whimsical and Profound
Ah, young love.
By Wayne Lee Gay
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Opera Review: Die tote Stadt In Dallas Offers Rare Look at Powerful Piece
The opera's breathtakingly beautiful score is a highlight.
By Wayne Lee Gay
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Review: Dallas Opera’s Futuristic Death and the Powers Faces Life’s Oldest Questions
How to become a billionaire robot, in several not-so-simple steps.
By Wayne Lee Gay
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The Man Behind Robot Opera Death and the Powers
Composer and inventor Tod Machover blends technology and music in his sci-fi opera of the future.
By Peter Simek
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Why 2014 May Prove Decisive for the Future of Local Classical Music
Dallas-Fort Worth symphonies and opera companies are at a turning point. Will they shoot for the stars or remain content with mediocrity?
By Wayne Lee Gay
Classical Music
The 8 Best Moments in Classical Music and Opera in 2013
Our critic rounds up the best moments in the concert halls and on opera stages in Dallas-Fort Worth this year.
By Wayne Lee Gay
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How the Broadway Porgy and Bess Mangles Gershwin’s Grand Opera
The substance of the masterpiece is still there and recognizable—albeit rendered garish and one-dimensional.
By Wayne Lee Gay
Classical Music
An Easier Way to Consume Your Culture: 7 Arts Organizations Launch the ‘DPASS’
It may sound like a little thing, but the DPASS is the Arts District doing the kind of thing for audience development that the development of the AT&T Performing Arts Center originally promised.
By Peter Simek