He will be greatly missed, and we look forward to celebrating him throughout our 65th anniversary season. American bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee (La bohme, 2018/2019) stars as Wotan, while South African soprano Amanda Echalaz-a "clear-flowing, nimble voice" (The New York Times) makes her TDO debut as Fricka, and "feisty, rich-voiced" (The New York Times) American soprano Karen Slack -winner of a 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence-makes her Dallas Opera debut as Freia. (May 26, 27 and 28, 2023), WOMEN IN CLASSICAL MUSIC SYMPOSIUM NOVEMBER 6-9, 2022; HONORING SOPRANO JULIA BULLOCK. NEXT STAGE DIGITAL CONCERT SERIES, PRESENTED BY PNC CONTINUES. Programming for The Dallas Opera's 2022/2023 Season was announced today by Ian Derrer, The Dallas Opera's Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO, and Emmanuel Villaume, the Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director, in celebration of the company's 65th Anniversary.The season features four new-to-Dallas mainstage productions-Verdi's dramatic Rigoletto, Humperdinck's charming Hansel and Gretel, Wagner's epic Das Rheingold, and Mozart's mischievous comedy Cos fan tutte-plus its annual Titus Family recital, this year featuring soprano Ying Fang; a free season-opening People's Choice concert in the fall; two family operas: The Billy Goats Gruff and The Elixir of Love; the biennial Lone Star Vocal Competition; and the annual Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase Concert. Your email address will not be published. April 12, 2021. The DSO will present Brahmss Fourth Symphony, continuing its recording project of the complete Brahms Symphonies. In the 2022/23 season, Zukerman will lead a chamber music program with DSO and SMU musicians on November 22. No conductor is more elegantly fastidious than Luisi in conveying details of timing, timbre, attack and release, and overall shape of music. Lise is well known for her interpretation of Clara Schumanns concerto, but the works by Perry and Farrenc were new to me. Only six weeks ago were arrangements made for reduced pandemic pay, conditional on contract negotiations. AsVanity Fairnotes, she is young, highly successful, [and] politically engaged, with the ability to inject each note she sings with a sense of grace and urgency, lending her performances the feel of being both of the moment and incredibly timeless.. Read on for details of the performance. Cerny is credited with stabilizing company finances, which allowed both the commissioning of new operas and new initiatives such as the "Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera" (2015) designed to address the challenge of gender imbalance at the top levels of the classical music industry. Principal Viola in the Dallas Opera Orchestra and teacher of strings to young people, Liesl-Ann deVilliers knew she wanted music to be her career the moment that a string orchestra visited her grade school in South Africa so many years ago. In 2009, she got her first orchestral job with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, with which she has advanced to Principal Viola. Tickets to this performance cost between $54.00 - $101.00. The Meyerson will glitter and glow with the festivities of the Dallas Symphony Gala on October 1, 2022. Zukerman has a long association with the Dallas Symphony beginning with his first performance with the orchestra in 1977. In addition to working in the Dallas Opera, he is a regular extra violist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and plays in the Crested Butte (CO) Music Festival during the summer season. The DSO is supported, in part, by funds from the Office of Arts & Culture, City of Dallas. In fulfilling its commitment to the community, the orchestra reaches more than 243,000 adults and children annually through performances, educational programs and community outreach initiatives. Florence Wang. The event will open with the Sunday, November 6 performance of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The Blues is at the heart and soul of nearly every form of popular music of the past 100 years. There they were Monday evening, a new imposition from the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Heggie sets texts by Gene Scheer, about making things out of stone, about Claudels search for her own identity amid her troubled relationship, finally evoking a late visit by a friend. Throughout this season we will share a number of overlooked masterpieces, and we will introduce new voices to Dallas audiences, said Luisi. No, it comprised three serious works about doomed characters: the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, the legendary Roman general Caius Marcius Coriolanus, and, via composer Jake Heggie, the sculptor Camille Claudel. Four mainstage series packages are available to subscribers, with the family operas and recital available as add-ons before single tickets go on sale July 29.Subscription packages start at $89 for all four operas, with subscribers saving up to 30% over the cost of purchasing operas individually. When she was 11 she saw and heard the orchestra visiting her school, her career path was set in her mind. She lives in Dallas and enjoys riding her trike around White Rock Lake. Before Dallas, he spent seven critically acclaimed seasons at the Met, six as principal conductor. Perhaps this depicts Claudel lost in her thoughts. Select concerts will also be offered as part of the DSOs Next Stage Digital Concert Series Presented by PNC Bank. Winds, in particular, sometimes had trouble sounding notes together, not a surprise for widely spaced musicians unaccustomed to playing together. Lovecrafts Dreamlands as the setting for his Cities of Lovecraft. This website is owned and operated by The Dallas Opera Players Committee. THE DALLAS OPERA'S 2022|2023 SEASON. A long-time student of the late Lev Aronson, Mr. Maxwell is an active chamber music performer in the Dallas area and is one of the founding members of the Trinity Chamber Players. (May 11, 12, 13 and 14 2023). Chamber-music concerts were produced at the Meyerson for video streaming. Musicians arranged chamber ensembles for outdoor performances. In this role, Zukerman will play-direct orchestra concerts with the DSO, appear as violin soloist with the orchestra and collaborate with DSO musicians in chamber music performances. . Jenkins and Shaw will bring to life iconic hits including Respect, Think, A Natural Woman, Chain of Fools and Amazing Grace., The DSO will bring back the magic of Hogwarts with the second film from one of the most beloved series in history, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The Met said at the time that it shared his frustration and that all parties had been working together for new agreements that will ensure the sustainability of the Met into the future. On Monday afternoon, the company added in a statement that it hoped the musicians would have an increasing number of performance opportunities between now and the fall, when we will once again be able to come together at the Met., Met Opera Players to Meet an Old Friend for a Gig, and Aid, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/arts/music/met-opera-orchestra-dallas.html. Single tickets will go on sale on in June. In the 2022/23 season, New leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Royal Northern Sinfonia. Anthony Whitworth-Jones became General Director in 2001. The orchestral writing, colorful and evocative, suggests Samuel Barber. (April 14, 15 and 16, 2023). Guest conductors & performances. To reserve a table early, contact Tab Boyles, Director of Event Planning at t.boyles@dalsym.com. One of Mozart's three Da Ponte operas, Cos stars sopranos Sara Gartland as Fiordiligi and Diana Newman as Despina; mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong-in her TDO debut-as Dorabella; baritone Lucas Meachem (The Barber of Seville, 2021/2022) as Guglielmo and tenor David Portillo as Ferrando; and baritone Rod Gilfry, as Don Alfonso. The musicians of the Metropolitan Operas orchestra, who went unpaid for nearly a year, are getting a hand from one of their old maestros, Fabio Luisi. Selections from the full ballet will ring through the Meyerson from the opening Overture to the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy to the Waltz of the Snowflakes. Playing a Mahler Symphony to . Colin received a Masters degree in viola performance from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, and Bachelor degrees in music performance and education from the University of Colorado at Boulder. (March 24, 26(m), 29 and April 1, 2023)Dallas Opera Chorus Master Alexander Rom prepares The Dallas Opera Chorus for Rigoletto and Cos fan tutte in his final season with the company. Likes. Dallas, Texas (March 4, 2022) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Fabio Luisi (Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship) and Ross Perot President & CEO Kim Noltemy today announce programming and initiatives for the 2022/23 concert season. This is early Berlioz, but already theres a visceral dramatic sense, vividly orchestrated. Local business leaders will take starring roles conductor, narrator, song-leader from the stage at the Meyerson, and companies around Dallas will network and celebrate the holidays. Vocal thrills!With an Italian conductor who clearly has Verdi in his veins, there wasnt a dull moment. (November 10, 12 and 13, 2022), Acclaimed violinist Nicola Benedetti will return to the DSO to join Luisi for the U.S. premiere of James MacMillans Violin Concerto No. PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR JEFF TYZIK LEADS THREE PERFORMANCES SPANNING DECADES OF MUSIC, Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik (Dot & Paul Mason Podium) will begin his tenth season with the DSO with music from blues and soul to hits of the 80s. Tomer Zvulun directs, and Emmanuel Villaume conducts. Scott Cantrell, Special Contributor. The Dallas Opera will follow federal, state and local guidelines and recommendations for safety. This past fall saw two television broadcasts featuring Luisi and the DSO. The conductor and connection between the two orchestras was DSO music director Fabio Luisi. Rigoletto George Gagnidze*. (November 4, 5 and 6, 2022), Our program at the beginning of November, leading into the Women in Classical Music Symposium, was a pleasure to discover, said Luisi. These were the sorts of liberties I imagined taken by the early 20th-century Dutch conductor and Mahler champion Willem Mengelberg. He enjoys biking with his wife, and is big fan of cats. He recently appeared as conductor and soloist in February 2022. Critic John Ardoin described the role of Laurence Kelly in establishing the company as follows: Many singers made their American debuts in Dallas, such as Montserrat Caball, Plcido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Waltraud Meier, Magda Olivero, Joan Sutherland, and Jon Vickers. Ms. Peguero studied cello under Martha Gershefsky at Columbus State University and earned a Masters in Music from Southern Methodist University under the tutelage of Chris Adkins. As a freelance musician he has performed in the Bands and Orchestras of . She and her husband live near White Rock Lake with their two dogs. The Trinidadian soprano will join conductor Stphane Denve in a program that features the Barber as well as non-American representations of American culture and life. Katrina leads a dual life in both Dallas and her home in Connecticut: in addition to her position with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, she is Assistant Principal Violist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, joined the Rhode Island Philharmonic's viola section in 2013 and, during the summers, is Principal Violist of the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY (where . The program wasnt the potpourri of operatic hits you might expect for such a celebratory occasion. News final program of the season will feature the DSO-commissioned world premiere of Katherine Balchs Cello Concerto, performed by Zlatomir Fung. The company moved to the Winspear Opera House as of the 2009-2010 season and moved its administrative offices into the building in the spring of 2010. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Vilma Peguero has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician and is also a respected teacher and mentor in the Dallas community. Bassoon. Beginning in May 2024, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Fabio Luisi (Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship), will present an opera-in-concert version of Richard Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen with internationally renowned singers. By Matt Stevens. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas and a Master of Music degree from Southern Methodist University. The News makes all editorial decisions. In January, Nzet-Sguin, the Mets music director, agreed to give up to $50,000 in matching donations to the orchestra and chorus. Cantrell, Scott, "Dallas Opera chief leaving", "Keith Cerny and Emmanuel Villaume Extend TDO Contracts to June 2022! Elizabeth Askren-an alumna of the second TDO Hart Institute for Women Conductors-makes her TDO debut leading The Dallas Opera Orchestra. Paul McCreesh joins the DSO to conduct a grand spiritual concert including vocal soloists, the Dallas Symphony Chorus and the Lay Family Organ. A broadcast version of the performance will air on Bloomberg Media in December 2023, the third year the program will reach a global audience. The first, seen on PBS stations, documented an event in spring of 2021 in which members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra travelled to Dallas for a week to combine forces with the DSO under Luisis direction and perform Mahlers Symphony No. However, his plans for expanding the company's repertory did not come to fruition in the wake of an economic downturn during his tenure, and he stood down from the post in 2003. She was first introduced to the piano at about age 5. 6. [6] Graeme Jenkins, who was music director from 1994 to 2013, now has the title of Music Director Emeritus with the company. The Dallas Opera Calendar of Events Download a copy of the 2022/2023 65th Anniversary Season brochure Subscription packages to the 2022/2023 65th Anniversary Season are still available! 2, Mendelssohn described the work as a "symphonic cantata." Bearing a superficial similarity to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, it begins with three instrumental . Director Steven Spielbergs heartwarming masterpiece is one of the brightest stars in motion picture history. And he had a very individual conception of the symphony, with some quite daring stretchings of pace in the scherzos gentle central waltz and a dreamy episode for strings in the finale. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra united for a week full of collaborative events, chamber concerts, virtual content & more! The company's first commission was for Robert Xavier Rodriguez's one-act children's opera Monkey See, Monkey Do in 1985. The four trumpeters and five trombonists played from the front row of the choral terrace above the stage. Tchaikovskys Symphony No. Tweets & replies. Fabio Luisi will lead an evening of selections from Lehrs treasured operetta The Merry Widow starring mezzo-soprano Susan Grahaman artist to treasure (The New York Times)and baritone Thomas Hampsonone of the worlds greatest opera singers (Good Morning America). Dallas audiences are familiar with the dramatic O Fortuna of Carmina Burana, but Catulli Carmina has never been performed at the DSO. She co-directs the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Young Strings Cello Camp every summer and is a Certified Suzuki Cello Teacher. The Queen of Soul will be celebrated when John McLaughlin Williams leads soloists Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw in Aretha: A Tribute (October 14, 15 and 16, 2022). After the musicians and the company reached their deal on temporary pay, he sent a letter to the Mets leaders urging them to find a solution to compensate our artists appropriately.. the Extra-Terrestrial on September 2-4, 2022. Audiences will enjoy the antics of Kevin as he defends his home against two bungling thieves (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). Double Bass. dallas symphony orchestra and members of the metropolitan opera orchestra unite for a special concert led by fabio luisi. Additional commissions were for Tobias Picker's Thrse Raquin in 2001 and Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick in 2010. The Dallas Opera also salutes its Chorus Master Alexander Rom, who marks his final season with the company after more than 30 years. In November 2015, Cerny's existing contract as General Director and CEO was extended until 2022. The vocal works were performed with projected texts. ABOUT THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAThe Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director Fabio Luisi, presents world-class orchestral music at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, one of the worlds top-rated concert halls. Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Presentation Ball, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Women's Auxiliary of The Salvation Army Dallas Fashion Show And Luncheon. New subscriptions will be available starting Friday, April 15, 2022. Backed by stunning projections designed by Jessica Drayton, suavely lighted by Krista Billings, DiDonato sang from the middle of the stage. The Dallas Opera Musicians are comprised of 60 tenured members and 37 associate musicians. Website by Grace Browning; Photography by Karen Almond Photography, Grace Browning, and Forest Aten; Logo by Anastasia V. Johnson. This unprecedented collaboration benefitted the MET Orchestra Musicians Fund and the Dallas-Fort Worth Musicians COVID-19 Relief Fund and marked the first time many of the non-DSO musicians had the opportunity to perform for a live audience since the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020. Keith Cerny's yearlong journey from leading The Dallas Opera to the top job at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, with a stop along the way in western Canada, is replete with dramatic intrigue. [2] Trumpet. Denise McGovern | Vice President of Communications & Media | Dallas Symphony Orchestrad.mcgovern@dalsym.com, Sidney Hopkins | Communications & Media Manager | Dallas Symphony Orchestras.hopkins@dalsym.com, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center Convinced that she has disgraced her ancestors, she prepares for suicide by snakebite. Violinist Randall Goosby will make his DSO debut with Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto. History. Trombone. For information on these and video offerings, check dallassymphony.org. The women of the Dallas Symphony Chorus will join New for Holsts The Planets (September 15, 16 and 17, 2022). This included a nine-city simulcast of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers. The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Lawrence Kelly and Nicol Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director. During his tenure, he initiated the company's public simulcast series in locations ranging from AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys) to Klyde Warren Park. Dallas Opera @TheDallasOpera . (Jason Janik / Special Contributor) Details He was a Meadows Scholarship graduate of SMU and has been a member of the Dallas Opera Orchestra since 1989. He will also lead intensive chamber-music coaching and instrument tutoring sessions in partnership with Southern Methodist Universitys Meadows School of the Arts. Website Design by. She has also been principal of the East Texas Symphony since 2006 and has participated with a number of other orchestras and ensembles in the metroplex. Oboe. The musicians, who went unpaid for nearly a year, have been invited to join Fabio Luisi, their former principal conductor, and his Dallas Symphony for two benefit concerts. Broadway Dallas and Broadway Across America has announced that tickets for Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show are on sale now. In Texas, where she has lived for the past 14 years, she has played in numerous symphonies, including the Fort Worth Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Richardson Symphony. 9 essential listening a fiery performance majestic yet sensual. Take advantage of these great prices soon because there are only 47 Our Town tickets left. When in Dallas, Katrina enjoys yoga and riding to work from Oak Cliff on her bike (ask her about getting places on DART! Dallas audiences will enjoy the full film projected in HD on the big screen while the DSO performs the unforgettable score live to picture. Tweets. In a review of a November 2020 Verdi concert at the DSO, the Dallas Morning News praised Luisis operatic credentials, continuing High drama! His classical music reporting is supported by the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. Martn will conduct works by Hungarian composers: Ligetis Concert Romnesc fr Orchestra and Bartks Concerto for Orchestra. Subscription price freeze guaranteed through June 30, 2022. The fourth annual Dallas Symphony Women in Classical Music Symposium will return November 6-9, 2022, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Derrer added, "Maestro Rom has been a fixture of The Dallas Opera's artistic team for more than three decades, leading our outstanding chorus in an impressive array of operatic styles, genres, and languages. The DSO welcomes everyone to its performances, and we hope that audiences will discover something new or rediscover some favorites., As I look into the audiences at the Meyerson, I see patrons of all ages, nationalities, genders and experiences, said Katie McGuinness, Wildenthal Families Vice President of Artistic Operations. Music Director Fabio Luisi has selected a program highlighting women composers from the 19th and early 20th-centuries, with piano soloist Lise de la Salle. 2. The third movements minor-mode Frre Jacques tune was introduced by the full bass section, rather than a soloist. Luisi will continue the program with Csar Francks Symphony in D minor, the composers best-known orchestral work. The DSO continued online music lessons to more than 300 students as part of its Young Strings and Kim Noltemy Young Musicians programs and increased its online dissemination of concerts through a newly designed website and on social media. [4], In April 2018, the company announced the appointment of Ian Derrer as its next general director and CEO effective July 2018. Dallasopera.org, 214-443 . explores the early music that started it all and pays tribute to the first musical legends who sang their way into history including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey and Louis Armstrong. Conductor Lawrence Loh will lead the orchestra in Dallass beloved holiday tradition, Dallas Symphony Christmas Pops. Subscriptions are now available for sale at dallassymphony.org, and packages begin at $176. mahler symphony no. Ms. Hamilton has worked with the Dallas Opera since 2007 and was appointed assistant principal in 2013. I am finding it increasingly hard to justify what has happened, he wrote. Principal Cello. Aida Cuevas will return to the Meyerson to share her talent with Dallas audiences when Enrico Lopez-Yaez will conduct the Queen of Mariachi (September 9, 10 and 11, 2022). His successor, Karen Stone, was appointed in mid-2003 as the company's fifth General Director. It does not represent the views, positions, or opinions of The Dallas Opera, but only those of the musicians and their Union, The Dallas/Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association, Local 72-147, American Federation of Musicians. Also on the program, Luisi will conduct Bruckners Symphony No. Opening the Dallas Opera's 65th anniversary season, Saturday night's performance of Verdi's Rigoletto was one you'd be happy to have on a compact disc. The DSO, under the direction of Jayce Ogren, will perform John Williamss score live to film. Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra canceled a March 5 concert scheduled to feature soprano Anna Netrebko in a decision the orchestra said it made "due to public concerns." Netrebko had been scheduled to perform with her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, and mezzo-soprano I-Chiao Shih. As the largest performing arts organization in the Southwest, the DSO is committed to inspiring the broadest possible audience with distinctive classical programs, inventive pops concerts and innovative multi-media presentations. The DSO has a tradition dating back to 1900 and is a cornerstone of the unique, 118-acre Arts District in Downtown Dallas that is home to multiple performing arts venues, museums and parks the largest district of its kind in the nation. 1. I am always curious about new music. The Dallas Opera Orchestra and Chorus. On period instruments, she has performed with Texas Camerata, the Dallas Bach Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Arcadia Players, and Concerto Kln. *The Dallas Opera debut^Alumna of Hart Institute for Women Conductors. Ms. Peguero has performed as a soloist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Dominican National Symphony, as well as in a chamber performance in the Texas Musical Outreach concert series featuring the Beethoven string quartets. Stevens has also performed with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony, Wichita Falls Symphony, Plano Symphony Orchestra, Richardson Symphony Orchestra, Irving Symphony, Dallas Summer Musicals, Lyric Stage, Orchestra of New Spain, and the Lewisville Lake Symphony. But there was dazzling excitement where called for, at the end with eight horns standing and blazing fanfares from trumpets and trombones. [5], French conductor Emmanuel Villaume became the company's music director on 30 April 2013. It will be a power-packed evening of the decades #1 hit songs, includingThe Power of Love, Time After Time, Material Girl, Another One Bites the Dust, Footloose, Addicted to Loveand many others. Dallas, TX MyDSO.com Joined January 2009. THE THORN will play the Music Hall at Fair for a limited run March 8 and 9, 2023 as part of a national tour that will visit 11 cities this spring. Emmanuel Villaume, conductor. A native of Abilene, Texas, Mr. Maxwell is currently Principal Cellist with the Dallas Opera Orchestra. Tenor Barry Banks sings the role of Mime, bass-baritone Michael Mayes sings Alberich, and tenor Brenton Ryan is Loge. During the pandemic, the Dallas Symphony was one of a few major U.S. orchestras to present socially distanced concerts with live audiences throughout the 2020/21 Season. Cello. 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Conductor Celia Llcer Carbonell from Spain leads the Dallas Opera Orchestra at the Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase Concert at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas on Jan. 28, 2023. Rounding out the cast are Lindsay Ammann as Erda, Diana Newman as Woglinde, Hannah Ludwig as Welgunde, and a host of artists making their TDO debuts: bass-baritone Peixin Chen as Fasolt, bass Soloman Howard as Fafner, bass-baritone Joseph Barron as Donner, tenor Robert Stahley as Froh, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Feinstein as Flosshilde. (October 28, 29 and 30, 2022), Conductor Damon Gupton will join the DSO for an evening celebrating the music of John Williams. Her mezzo could rage or confide, occasionally dipping into a powerful chest voice. 4, the cinematic Romantic, the first time during his tenure that Luisi has presented Bruckner. The Dallas Opera co-production with Houston Grand Opera and The Atlanta Opera, Sung in Italian with projected English titlesPERFORMANCE DATESSaturday, October 8, at 8PM - Linda and Mitch Hart Season Opening Night PerformanceWednesday, October 12, at 7:30PMFriday, October 14, at 7:30PMSunday, October 16, at 2PM, Sung in English with projected English titlesPERFORMANCE DATESFriday, October 28, at 7:30PMSunday, October 30, at 2PMWednesday, November 2, at 7:30PMSaturday, November 5, at 7:30PM, Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino RossiniSung in EnglishPERFORMANCE DATESSaturday, October 29, 2022, at 2PMSunday, February 5, 2023, at 2PM, Sung in EnglishPERFORMANCE DATESSunday, November 6, 2022, at 2PMSaturday, March 25, 2023, at 2PM, Moody Performance HallThe Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus Family RecitalYing Fang, SopranoKen Noda, PianistPERFORMANCE DATESunday, January 15, 2023, at 2PM, PERFORMANCE DATESaturday, January 28, 2023, at 7:30PM, DAS RHEINGOLD by Richard WagnerEmmanuel Villaume, conductorThe Dallas Opera Orchestra, Sung in German with projected English titlesPERFORMANCE DATESFriday, February 10, 2023, at 7:30PMSunday, February 12, 2023, at 2PMWednesday, February 15, 2023, at 7:30PMSaturday, February 18, 2023, at 7:30PM, Elizabeth Askren, conductor*^The Dallas Opera Orchestra and ChorusFiordiligi Sara GartlandDorabella Elizabeth DeShong*Ferrando David PortilloGuglielmo Lucas MeachemDon Alfonso Rod GilfryDespina Diana NewmanOriginal Director Michael CavanaghSet Designer Erhard RomCostume Designer Constance HoffmanLighting Designer Jane CoxChorus Master Alexander RomProduction from San Francisco OperaSung in Italian with projected English titlesPERFORMANCE DATESFriday, March 24, 2023, at 7:30PMSunday, March 26, 2023, at 2PMWednesday, March 29, 2023, at 7:30PMSaturday, April 1, 2023, at 7:30PM, PERFORMANCE DATEFriday, March 31, 2023, at 7:30PM.