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    The Golden Cockerel

    When it comes to inept leaders, King Dodon takes the cake. He’s lazy, has terrible advisors, and would
    rather be in bed eating bonbons than waging war! But he’s also petrified that his enemies will take him by surprise. Happily, his astrologer gives him the perfect gift: a golden cockerel that sounds the alarm whenever danger is near. But even the magical bird can’t save Dodon when he comes up against his most formidable adversary—a voluptuous young queen, who unashamedly displays her charms!

    From Scheherazade’s composer—a high-flying comedy about seduction and a royal reign run amok!

    Watch what happens when she demands the keys to the old king’s kingdom —and the astrologer demands a shocking payment for the bird! Enjoy gorgeous music, lavish costumes, and an opulent production that earned rave reviews in Santa Fe.

    Co-production by The Santa Fe Opera and The Dallas Opera
    Photo by Ken Howard

    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.

    The Barber of Seville

    NOTE: Performances originally planned for April 29-May 10, 2020 and later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rescheduled performances are planned for March 19-27, 2022.

    From the first notes of one of the world’s most famous overtures to the final curtain, your heart will be racing — but not for the exit!

    Love is in the air – but there’s also a whiff of trouble!

    Who’s the guy you can call when your love life’s in shambles? It’s Figaro! Figaro! Figaro! – the indomitable barber of Seville, who’s a master of disguises, surprises, and deceptions. If you’ve got the money, he’s got the time for even the most difficult case! Enter Count Almaviva, who’s smitten with the lovely Rosina. But her grumpy old guardian has her under lock and key because he intends to marry her himself! Not to worry, though, because Figaro has more offensive and defensive moves than The Dallas Cowboys, and true love triumphs in the end.

    Scenery and Properties designed by Allen Moyer
    Scenery and properties for this production are jointly owned by Minnesota Opera, Washington National Opera and Opera Omaha and were constructed by Minnesota Opera Shops.

    Photo by Michal Daniel

    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.

    The Titus Art Song Recital Series

    Songs from master composers, spirituals, zarzuela, and more—get ready for a wonderfully eclectic evening of artistry from Angel Blue— “one of the most outstanding voices of her generation.”
    — The Financial Times, London

    She has enthralled audiences from the Hollywood Bowl to the Metropolitan Opera to Europe’s most esteemed opera houses and concert venues. Now, thanks to Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus, TDO presents Angel Blue in a uniquely intimate setting.

    When: Sunday, January 26, 2020

    Time: 2:00pm

    Where: Moody Performance Hall

    With her “rich, velvety voice…Angel Blue is sultry, dramatic, and spine-tingling.”
    — The Times, London

    Sonia Ben-Santamaria

    France/United Kingdom

    Sonia Ben-Santamaria is the first female conductor to be associated with the Royal Opera House Jette Parkers young artists programme 2017/2018. Highlights of her season includes shadowing Sir Antonio Pappano on Shostakovitch’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, leading the Youth Opera Company chorus on Barrie Kosky’s Carmen and conducting the presentation of The Monstrous Child. Originally Spanish but French born, Sonia trained at the Conservatoire de Toulouse, the Royal Academy of Music, the National Opera Studio, London, and was subsequently offered a position at the English National Opera as trainee repetiteur and vocal coach.  Sonia is the proud founder of Glass Ceiling Orchestra, a socially engaged chamber orchestra which promotes equal opportunities, female conductors and composers. Future engagements include Un Ballo in Maschera for Opera Holland Park.

     

    2018 Hart Institute Concert Performance Selections

    • Overture, Don Pasquale   – G. Donizetti
    • Son nata a lagrimar, Giulio Cesare in Egitto   – G.F. Handel
    • Prosti, prelestnoye sozdan’ye, The Queen of Spades   – Tchaikovsky

    The Titus Art Song Recital Series Concert

    Songs from master composers, spirituals, zarzuela, and more—get ready for a wonderfully eclectic evening of artistry from Angel Blue— “one of the most outstanding voices of her generation.”
    — The Financial Times, London

    She has enthralled audiences from the Hollywood Bowl to the Metropolitan Opera to Europe’s most esteemed opera houses and concert venues. Now, thanks to Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus, TDO presents Angel Blue in a uniquely intimate setting.

    When: Sunday, January 26, 2020

    Time: 2:00pm

    Where: Moody Performance Hall

    With her “rich, velvety voice…Angel Blue is sultry, dramatic, and spine-tingling.”
    — The Times, London