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The Bremen Town Musicians

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A local state of emergency has been declared in Dallas County due to the small but significant number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This performance has been cancelled, due to these restrictions and out of concern for the health and safety of our patrons. While everyone involved regrets the necessity of this cancellation, we are committed to doing our part to help stop the spread of this virus. Thank you for your understanding. Read more.

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The Dallas Opera’s exciting new production, The Bremen Town Musicians, is an operatic version of the Brothers Grimm classic fairytale set to music by Rossini, Donizetti, Offenbach, Arthur Sullivan and Verdi. This children’s opera tells the tale of a rooster, dog, cat, and a donkey whose paths cross on the way to the town of Bremen.

Working together as a team to overcome difficult circumstances, the newly-formed Bremen Town Musicians celebrate the idea that friendship, cooperation, and respect for others is far better than facing our problems alone.

Schedule for the Performance
12:30pm Lobby and arts and crafts opens
1:15pm Hall opens for season subscribers
1:30pm Hall opens for all ticket holders
2:00pm performance begins
2:35pm performance ends

The Dallas opera is proud to continue their partnership with the North Texas Food Bank, now entering its fourth year and you can support this partnership and enjoy a family performance for FREE. Simply bring two items from the list below, on the Family Performance day you wish to attend, to receive one FREE ticket.

NTFB’s Most Needed Items

Low-Sodium Canned Vegetables
Dried or Canned Beans
Whole-Grain Rice or Pasta
Healthy Cereal
Peanut Butter

Pulcinella/La voix humaine

* * * Event Cancelled * * *

A local state of emergency has been declared in Dallas County due to the small but significant number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This event has been cancelled, due to these restrictions and out of concern for the health and safety of our patrons. While everyone involved regrets the necessity of this cancellation, we are committed to doing our part to help stop the spread of this virus. Thank you for your understanding.

Pulcinella

One hundred years ago, uber Impresario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned a ballet with song—a comedy with music by Igor Stravinsky and sets by Pablo Picasso. The result was a unique and glittering artistic gem—-Pulcinella—-the tale of a mercurial rogue who constantly interrupts other people’s romances because the ladies can’t resist him!
Dance…. Song…and an irresistible rogue!
The Dallas Opera celebrates the 1920 premiere with a new production in collaboration with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre ), a company that “again and again proves its place in contemporary dance.” (The Washington Post) Enjoy dancers internationally praised for their artistic excellence, versatility, and explosive energy—and three brilliant young singers:

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.

La voix humaine (The Human Voice)

Experience this extraordinary one-woman show that is dramatically riveting, emotionally raw, and
achingly personal. Poulenc’s setting of Jean Cocteau’s famous drama (played on stage by actresses
including Ingrid Bergman) takes audiences to a place where they are eavesdroppers and voyeurs.
“Racette raises the emotional ante is every portrayal” ….as Elle, “she is mesmerizing from first to last, drawing us into her character’s increasing distress…as her life unravels around her.” – Chicago Tribune

Elle, the tragic heroine, is having one final phone call with her callous and longtime lover, who is
abandoning her for another. Her voice is all we hear of their conversation—and from feigned
indifference to panic and despair, her every emotion is searingly conveyed.
Expect a tour-de-force performance from Patricia Racette, one of the world’s greatest singing actresses.

Production by The Dallas Opera

Sung in French with English supertitles

By arrangement with Hendon Music Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes, company, Sole Agent in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for Casa Ricordi/Universal Music Publishing Ricordi S.R.L., publisher and copyright owner.

Want to learn more about the opera you are seeing? Come early and join TDO for the Joy and Ronald Mankoff Pre-Opera Talks. Pre-Opera Talks are informative and interactive 30-minute lectures featuring opera experts from all over DFW. Pre-Opera Talks are FREE with a ticket to a TDO performance and are guaranteed to increase your knowledge and enjoyment of opera. Pre-Opera talks are held in the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall, one hour before each TDO mainstage performance.

Doctor Miracle

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A local state of emergency has been declared in Dallas County due to the small but significant number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This performance has been cancelled, due to these restrictions and out of concern for the health and safety of our patrons. While everyone involved regrets the necessity of this cancellation, we are committed to doing our part to help stop the spread of this virus. Thank you for your understanding. Read more.

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Georges Bizet’s romantic, one-act operetta about love and omelets was composed for a music competition when the composer (world-renowned for his operas Carmen and The Pearl Fishers) was just eighteen years old.

A youthful vitality permeates this story set in 19th century Padua, Italy, in the home of the Mayor, his wife Veronica, and his love-struck daughter, Laurette.”

She’s enamored of the ever-resourceful Silvio, an army captain, who dons one disguise after another to infiltrate the household, in order to win the hand of the girl he adores. Sound simple? Guess again! The classic storybook set and costumes were designed by Production Designer Tommy Bourgeois. This TDO production will be revived under the direction of SMU’s Hank Hammett and Dallas Opera’s Education Music Director and Pianist Mary Dibbern.

Featuring The Dallas Opera Orchestra

NTFB’s Most Needed Items

Low-Sodium Canned Vegetables
Dried or Canned Beans
Whole-Grain Rice or Pasta
Healthy Cereal
Peanut Butter

A Dallas Opera Production

Don Carlo

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Father against Son. Catholic against Protestant. Friend against Friend.

Such a grand web of emotion, history, and musical thinking is contained in Verdi’s epic Don Carlo that the experience of it will leave you riveted.

If you’re longing for thrilling music combined with searing drama, then nobody does it better than Verdi.
The terrors of the Spanish Inquisition are raging, and so are personal and political passions.
France’s princess Elizabeth is forced to marry Phillip, King of Spain, forsaking her beloved Don
Carlo—the firebrand who turns out to be her husband’s own son! Add to the mix the terrifying Grand
Inquisitor and the King’s duplicitous mistress, and the stage is set for an explosive amalgam of sex,
politics, and religion. With the orchestra, chorus, and international cast on stage,
projections of masterworks by Goya, El Greco, and more provide the backdrop for an
unforgettable experience.

A New Dallas Opera semi-staged presentation
Principal costumes for this production were constructed by the Minnesota Opera Costume Shop and are owned by Minnesota Opera

Dallas Opera Guild Insights – Pulcinella/La voix humaine

* * * Event Cancelled * * *

A local state of emergency has been declared in Dallas County due to the small but significant number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This performance has been cancelled, due to these restrictions and out of concern for the health and safety of our patrons. While everyone involved regrets the necessity of this cancellation, we are committed to doing our part to help stop the spread of this virus. Thank you for your understanding. Read more.

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Presented by The Dallas Opera Guild, “Opera Insights” is a lively panel discussion featuring the artists, music staff and the design teams for each of the upcoming TDO productions. Learn about the upcoming production, the conductor’s approach to the opera, how the artists began their careers and much more!

This event will feature:
Candace Evans – Director Pulcinella
Sean J. Smith – Choreographer Pulcinella
Nicole Paiement – Conductor La voix humaine
Patricia Racette – Director and Elle La voix humaine
Moderated by Suzanne Calvin, Director and of Media and Public Relations for The Dallas Opera

Location Dallas Black Dance Theatre, 2700 Ann Williams Way, Dallas, TX 75201 (Directions)

Parking $3 in lot directly adjacent to building entrance at the intersection of Arts Plaza and Ross Ave. Limited availability, first come, first parked.

PLEASE NOTE – EVENT CANCELLED.

No reserved seating. All seating will be General Admission Seating. Ticket not required but due to limited seating an RSVP is requested.

SEATING POLICY FOR FREE EVENTS – with RSVP

Thank you for your interest in this program. Please know that an RSVP does not guarantee your seat. As free events, such as these, often have a high number of patrons who do not attend, or request a high number of seats, the policy is to accept more requests than maximum seating, in an effort to accommodate the most patrons.

To guarantee your seat please check in with staff at least 30 minutes prior to the performance start time. Walk up patrons who have not RSVP’d will be allowed access to any open seats 10 minutes prior to the start of the event.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.RSVP