TDO Connections 2024/2025 Season: Exploring Musical Impact
This season, TDO Connections explores the impact of music in our lives, cultures, and storytelling. A beloved aria, the song that plays at every family, lush melodies that captivate the audience, and the rhythm that compels you to dance – all are ways music impacts our lives each day. The Dallas Opera will collaborate with music staff, artists, music therapists, and storytellers through online and in-person events to consider the various ways music connects us.
Opening Discussion Panel: Making Musical Connections
Paolo Bressan, Panelist – TDO Chorus Director and Head of Music
Michelle N. Gibson, Panelist – Choreographer, Cultural Ambassador, SMU Professor
Rebecca West, Panelist – TWU Professor, Music Therapist
Quodesia Johnson, Moderator – TDO Company Culture Consultant
Kristian Roberts, Moderator – TDO Director of Education
Running Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes
Community Healing and Dialogue Circle: Musical Celebration
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 10:00am CST
Karayanis Rehearsal Production Center | 4301 S Fitzhugh Ave. Dallas, TX 75210
Music plays an integral role in our lives and in operatic storytelling. The Dallas Opera presents its third Community Healing and Dialogue Circle to explore how music impacts and connects us across identities, cultures, and experiences. Join healing practitioners in this offering of mindfulness, meditation, connection, and celebration.
This event is for all ages and all identities and includes sitting, movement, and optional writing/journaling. Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably and bring water, a yoga mat or cushion for a soft surface, pen/pencil, and paper/journal.
Stefanie Tovar, Facilitator – artist, yoga instructor, Hanuman Homies
Quodesia Johnson, Facilitator – TDO Company Culture Consultant