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Fort Worth Opera’s effort greeted with pre-festival sellouts
Date: 4/8/2011 By Michael H. Price, FW Business Press
"A creative and marketing strategy to place Fort Worth Opera on the leading edge of experimental, non-traditional performance has been greeted with four sellouts at $60 a seat among nine presentations of an edgy exercise in social criticism called Hydrogen Jukebox – two months before The Fort Worth Opera Festival is due to open.
General ticket sales began March 22. The Texas premiere of Hydrogen Jukebox, combining the words of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) with the music of Philip Glass, will take place at the 99-seat Sanders Theatre, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, as an off-site expansion of FW OperaFest from its customary venue, Bass Hall. Given the Sanders’ limited seating, the company has extended Jukebox to nine performances – four of which have already sold to capacity."
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Date: 4/8/2011 By Michael H. Price, FW Business Press
"A creative and marketing strategy to place Fort Worth Opera on the leading edge of experimental, non-traditional performance has been greeted with four sellouts at $60 a seat among nine presentations of an edgy exercise in social criticism called Hydrogen Jukebox – two months before The Fort Worth Opera Festival is due to open.
General ticket sales began March 22. The Texas premiere of Hydrogen Jukebox, combining the words of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) with the music of Philip Glass, will take place at the 99-seat Sanders Theatre, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, as an off-site expansion of FW OperaFest from its customary venue, Bass Hall. Given the Sanders’ limited seating, the company has extended Jukebox to nine performances – four of which have already sold to capacity."
Continue reading this article from the Fort Worth Business Press here.
