Darren Woods, FW Opera’s gay boss, steps into the limelight (literally) for the 1st time at Bass ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor The Fort Worth Opera has done its festival format since the spring of 2007, but this year, the festival takes on a different tenor. That’s because Darren Woods, the gay general director [...]
Out ‘Barihunk’ Jonathan Beyer sings as part of a trio in Dallas Opera’s upcoming production of ‘Turandot,’ but he’ll be missing his operatic partner Gregory Sullivan Isaacs Contributing Writer ……………………. TURANDOT Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. April 5–21. Tickets from $19. 214-443-1000. DallasOpera.org …………………… Who, or what, are Ping, Pang and Pong? Not video [...]
Gay choreographer Kenneth von Heidecke gives movement to the classical canon’s most balletic opera GREGORY SULLIVAN ISAACS | Contributing Writer gregoryissacs@theaterjones.com The first impression Kenneth von Heidecke makes is that he looks and moves like a dancer. He is tall and slender and — while a few months shy of his 60th birthday — is obviously [...]
To play the villainous Scarpia in FWO’s ‘Tosca,’ happily coupled barihunk Michael Chioldi dug deep RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer ……………………… TOSCA Bass Performance Hall, 545 Commerce St., Fort Worth. May 12–June 2. FWOpera.org. …………………….. For his entire professional life, Michael Chioldi has done nothing but sing opera. Yes, he has moments while listening to [...]
No opera plot is as fanciful as the 50-year romance between Bliss Hebert and Allen Charles Klein, collaborating (again) on ‘La Traviata’ GREGORY SULLIVAN ISAACS | Contributing Writer ……………… LA TRAVIATA Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. Performances on April 18, 21, 27 and 29. $29–$139. DallasOpera.org. ……………… Making the decision to work professionally with your [...]
DTC’s Kevin Moriarty ventures out of his comfort zone by directing an opera ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Anyone who wants to direct for the theater has control issues. After all, that’s what the job is, right? Deciding how all the pieces fit together. Telling the actors, designers, crew what to do. Running the [...]
Patricia Racette, half of the lesbian power couple of opera, has certainly arrived. And that’s music to our ears GREGORY SULLIVAN ISAACS | Contributing Writer gregoryisaacs@theaterjones.com ………………….. AN EVENING OF CABARET Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Free to Dallas Opera season subscribers. DallasOpera.org. …………………. From the outside, the [...]
MUSICAL HOWL | Allen Ginsberg’s poetry spoke to ‘Hydrogen Jukebox’s’ out cast members Dan Kempson, back left, and Jonathan Blalock, center. (Photo courtesy Ellen Appel) Ginsberg & Glass team up for ‘Hydrogen Jukebox,’ the latest in FWO’s out-of-the-box operas ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com What do you get when you combine the Mobius-strip music [...]
A more insane ‘Mikado’ never did in Cowtown exist as John de los Santos puts a satiric edge to the Gilbert & Sullivan classic for Fort Worth Opera ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com GRAND POOBAH | John de los Santos puts a contemporary spin on Gilbert & Sullivan’s 19th century satire ‘The Mikado.’ (Arnold [...]
You’d think Anna Bolena, Dallas Opera’s final entry in Donizetti’s Tudor Trilogy, would be as juicy as the story that inspired it: Infidelity, treason, politics, religion, even a beheading! But the only head missing is the one that kept sense how to make the production work as a stage piece. Denyce Graves’ opening aria, with her [...]
