Becoming a SUPERstar On 2/2/2012 By Shelby Button Cops solving crimes for justice. Priests teaching the Gospel. Soldiers fighting for liberty. As children, we dreamed up countless careers. Many of these involved sticks from the backyard substituting ...

Darren Woods to Run Fort Worth Opera Through 2018 On 2/2/2012 By Jerome Weeks "Fort Worth Opera announced the six principal artists for its 2012 season — and oh yeah. They’re re-upping general director Darren Woods’ contract, adding two more years to it. That’s the third consec...

Fort Worth Opera Opens New Frontiers! On 1/17/2012 By David Weuste "Already known worldwide as a champion of new and rarely performed works, Fort Worth Opera has announced a new inaugural program for the 2013 Fort Worth Opera Festival – Frontiers, a New consec...

Object lesson: Opera costumes On 1/17/2012 By Nancy Bartosek "Building a costume that can hold up for more than 100 performances in front of more than 50,000 school children in 73 Texas schools takes a special kind of skill, the sort that theatre Professor...

Fort Worth Opera to encourage new works with 'Frontiers' at 2013 festival On 1/16/2012 By Olin Chism "The Fort Worth Opera, which has developed a reputation for presenting new operas along with old favorites, is introducing an innovative program dubbed 'Frontiers' that will bring up to eight composer...

Fort Worth Opera Seeks New Work On 1/16/2012 By Mark Lowry "The Fort Worth Opera has been one of the leading forces for new and rare work since General Director Darren K. Woods arrived a decade ago, having staged such works as the opera version of Angels in composer...

Fort Worth Opera to showcase new works in 2013 festival On 1/16/2012 By Scott Cantrell "Excerpts from new operas from the Americas will be performed as part of the 2013 Fort Worth Opera Festival.Called Frontiers, the new program will invite submissions of 15- to 25-minute excerpts composer...

OPERA America Awards the OPERA Fund: Audience Development Grants On 1/10/2012 By Patricia Kiernan Johnson "New York, NY—OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce that it has awarded nearly $200,000 in Audience Development grants, as part of The Opera composer...

The Column’s picks for Best Dallas-Fort Worth theater of 2011 On 1/9/2012 By Lyle Huchton "Best Productions: THE MIKADO (Fort Worth Opera) - Fort Worth Opera yanked the obis off of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic Japanese tale and replaced them with repelling Ninjas, Segway's, and Hello composer...

Year in review: Theater, classical music and dance On 12/28/2011 By Olin Chism, Mark Lowry & Punch Shaw; Special to the Star-Telegram "...Fort Worth Opera Festival's 'Il Trovatore' (May-June, Bass Hall)Four top-notch singers in the leading roles backed by a group of excellent subsidiary performers gave chilling new life to Verdi's composer...

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