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Keith Speaks

by Suzanne Calvin

This interview  of Keith Cerny by Gregory Sullivan Isaacs first appeared in this month’s “Arts + Culture Magazine”…now, in “Theater Jones.” It’s definitely worth a read if you are interested in the thinking behind a number of recent decisions at the Dallas Opera and our General Director’s vision for the future. Oh, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU [...]

Creating New Opera (And Other Musical Works)

by Suzanne Calvin

December 5th at 6:30 PM in the Winspear’s Hamon Hall - and anyone can come! RSVP today at 214.443.1044. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Contact: Suzanne Calvin 214-443-1014/suzanne.calvin@dallasopera.org THE DALLAS OPERA IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE GENERAL DIRECTOR’S ROUNDTABLE! “CREATING NEW OPERA (And Other Musical Works)” FEATURING MOBY-DICK LIBRETTIST AND AMERICAN LYRICIST GENE SCHEER, ANN [...]

"Arts + Culture" Cerny Interview

by tdoadmin

Run, don’t walk, to find the Gregory Sullivan Isaacs interview with Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny in this month’s issue of “Arts + Culture” magazine. It’s simply one of the best interviews of Keith yet and worth making an effort to find. Among other things, he talks about the technological and cultural [...]

“Arts + Culture” Cerny Interview

by Suzanne Calvin

Run, don’t walk, to find the Gregory Sullivan Isaacs interview with Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny in this month’s issue of “Arts + Culture” magazine. It’s simply one of the best interviews of Keith yet and worth making an effort to find. Among other things, he talks about the technological and cultural [...]

Scott Cantrell’s Latest

by Suzanne Calvin

I’m thinking that the analogy between the political chaos that is the setting for Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” and Keith Cerny’s situation as General Director and CEO of the Dallas Opera might be a bit of a stretch (or what we in the opera world term, “artistic license”); nevertheless, the “Dallas Morning News” Classical Music Critic gives us [...]

Scott Cantrell's Latest

by tdoadmin

I’m thinking that the analogy between the political chaos that is the setting for Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” and Keith Cerny’s situation as General Director and CEO of the Dallas Opera might be a bit of a stretch (or what we in the opera world term, “artistic license”); nevertheless, the “Dallas Morning News” Classical Music Critic gives us [...]

Crewmantle Goes to the Top

by Suzanne Calvin

Of the company, that is. Here’s his take on meeting Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny at the midway point of Crewmantle’s recent ”COMMANDOpera Eastern U.S. Opera Company Tour.” In case you were wondering, the fellow in the feathered mask is NOT Mr. Cerny.  For additional details, click here. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media & PR

D Goes Dickens on TDO

by Suzanne Calvin

In the October issue of D magazine, just hitting the newsstands, a feature detailing the challenges confronting the Dallas Opera and the man at the top, doing just that. Willard Spiegelman’s take on things is occasionally barbed, yet thoughtful.  Feel free to weigh-in after you read the entire piece right here. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media & [...]

From the desk of General Director Keith Cerny

by Megan Meister

Richard Wagner would be delighted to know that more than 125 years after his death, his signature Festspielhaus in Bayreuth still plays to sold-out audiences, with 10-year waiting lists to buy tickets.  Thanks to the generosity of the Dallas Wagner Society,  its President Roger Carroll, and its Treasurer Greg McConeghy, I was privileged to attend all five [...]