FWO Archives: Donizetti's Comedy 'Don Pasquale' with a Twist (2018 Festival & 2003 Production)
Director Chuck Hudson’s dazzling, 1950s Hollywood-inspired Don Pasquale was one of the highlights of the 2018 Festival. As we look back at t
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rlathan8
- Aug 21, 2020
- 10 min
FWO Archives: Jake Heggie's 'Dead Man Walking' (2009 Festival)
Synopsis ACT I During the early 1980s in Louisiana, two brothers, Joseph and Anthony De Rocher, are convicted of rape and murder of a...
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rlathan8
- Aug 20, 2020
- 2 min
OPERA EATS: Braised Short Ribs
The following recipe for Braised Short Ribs comes from our magnificent Head of Music and Music Director of Children's Opera Theatre, Charlen
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rlathan8
- Aug 13, 2020
- 6 min
FWO Archives: Gioacchino Rossini's 'Cinderella' Program Notes (2009 Festival)
FWOpera's sparkling production of Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella) based on the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault....
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rlathan8
- Aug 5, 2020
- 3 min
2020 McCammon Voice Competition Cancelled & Thirty Semi-Finalists Granted an Award
19th biennial competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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rlathan8
- Aug 4, 2020
- 8 min
FWO Archives: Tom Cipullo's 'Glory Denied' Composer, Director, Author Program Notes (2013 Festival)
No holds barred. No apologies. Just the brutally honest recollections of America's longest-held Vietnam prisoner-of-war. Based on the best-s
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rlathan8
- Jul 29, 2020
- 9 min
FWO Archives: Mark Adamo's 'Lysistrata' Program & Composer Notes (2012 Festival)
It's a battle of the sexes in ancient Greece! They say all's fair in love and war, so is it possible to stop a war by withholding love?...
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rlathan8
- Jul 21, 2020
- 6 min
FWO Archives: 'The Marriage of Figaro' Program Notes (2012 Festival)
Social tensions boil over in this classic battle of the sexes, as Mozart brings Beaumarchais' thinly-veiled attack on the aristocracy to...
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rlathan8
- Jul 16, 2020
- 5 min
FWO Archives: 'Cruzar La Cara De La Luna' (2017) - Cruzar: The Background & Article by Pépé Martinez
Cruzar La Cara De La Luna began with a phone call from Anthony Freud, then General Director of Houston Grand Opera. The morning after he had
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rlathan8
- Jul 9, 2020
- 7 min
FWO Archives: 'Little Women' Program Notes (2005 Season)
"It reads better than I expected.”
That was the understated reaction Louisa May Alcott recorded in her journal after reading the publisher's
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rlathan8
- Jul 7, 2020
- 3 min
Top 5 Brain Benefits of Music Therapy for Individuals with Special Needs
Guest blog from Daniel Stein, Founder of Special Strong, providing fitness and nutrition for special needs individuals.
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rlathan8
- Jun 30, 2020
- 3 min
FWO Archives: 'María de Buenos Aires' (Festival 2018) - Q&A with Solange Merdinian
Acclaimed for her “smoldering stage presence,” (New York Times) and her “richly-hued voice” (BBC Music magazine), American-Argentinean...
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rlathan8
- Jun 23, 2020
- 6 min
FWO Archives: Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' (2004)
One of the descriptors commonly found in discussions of the comic operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan is "topsy-turvy." There is always...
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rlathan8
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
FWO Archives (1963-1979): Soprano Beverly Sills - 'La Traviata' to 'The Barber of Seville.'
The late great Beverly Sills launched many additions to her repertoire here in Fort Worth, including 'The Beautiful Galatea,' 1964.'
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rlathan8
- Jun 18, 2020
- 3 min
Q&A with Joaquin Escalante of Best Buddies International
Fort Worth Opera is excited to host a YouTube watch party for the Texas Chapter of Best Buddies International.
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rlathan8
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
FWO Archives: (1947) Fort Worth Opera's second production was Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly'
FWO Archive: (1947) Fort Worth Opera's second production was Puccini's Madama Butterfly, performed at the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium un
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rlathan8
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
FWO Archives: (1984-1985) During our "Season of Departures"
FWO Archives (1984-1985) During our "Season of Departures," the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra became Fort Worth Opera's permanent orchestra,
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rlathan8
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
FWO Archives: (November 25, 1946) Verdi's 'La Traviata' performed to a sold-out house at Will Rogers
Walter Herbert, Frankfurt-born general director of The New Orleans Opera, was brought in to conduct the thirty-six piece orchestra. Herbert
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rlathan8
- Jun 16, 2020
- 6 min
FWO Archives: Peter Eötvös and Tony Kushner's 'Angels in America' (2008 Festival)
Fort Worth Opera's 'Angels in America' includes meditations on politics, American history, love and mortality. It has plenty of religion-
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rlathan8
- Jun 12, 2020
- 7 min
FWO Archives: Becoming Carmen - An Interview with Audrey Babcock (2017 Festival)
FWO Archives: Carmen (2017) - The following Fort Worth Opera article features an exclusive interview with Audrey Babcock (Carmen).
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