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Opera: Fort Worth Opera Festival mixes moderns, favorites again
Date: 5/4/2012 By Scott Cantrell
Conventional wisdom holds that people want comfort-food entertainment during tough economic times and that arts organizations should program accordingly. Fort Worth Opera keeps defying that supposed wisdom.
This year’s Fort Worth Opera Festival, running from Saturday through June 3, promises two audience favorites. But even Puccini’s Tosca and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, remember, are about uncomfortable intersections of power and sex. The festival also includes two recent American operas, Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers and Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata. The former is about contemporary family dysfunction, the latter about the age-old conflict between love and war.
-- Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
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Date: 5/4/2012 By Scott Cantrell
Conventional wisdom holds that people want comfort-food entertainment during tough economic times and that arts organizations should program accordingly. Fort Worth Opera keeps defying that supposed wisdom.
This year’s Fort Worth Opera Festival, running from Saturday through June 3, promises two audience favorites. But even Puccini’s Tosca and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, remember, are about uncomfortable intersections of power and sex. The festival also includes two recent American operas, Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers and Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata. The former is about contemporary family dysfunction, the latter about the age-old conflict between love and war.
-- Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
Click here to read the full article.
