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    New Co-Commission Announced! Girls of the Golden West

    Adams and Sellars - Photo by Terrence McCarthy SFO
    Adams and Sellars – Photo by Terrence McCarthy SFO

    The Dallas Opera is co-producing a new opera by composer John Adams and librettist/director Peter Sellars called Girls of the Golden West. The companies that are co-commissioning the work are San Francisco Opera, Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam) and Teatro La Fenice (Venice). The opera will premiere first in San Francisco in November 2017 as part of its 2017-2018 season. The Dallas Opera plans to present the opera in its 2020-2021 season.

    Please click for the full story from Opera News. 

     

    How do you spell “C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-R-Y”?

    Plenty of serious food for thought in General Director and CEO Keith Cerny’s latest “Off the Cuff” for “Theater Jones.” The topic is accessing modern and contemporary works to take their place in the opera season – and everything that entails. And if you think this is simply a matter of choosing “one from Column A and another from Column B” you are sorely mistaken.

    Read on right here.

    Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media and PR