FWO Archives: Benjamin Britten's 'Turn of the Screw' (2003-2004 Season)
In this spine-tingling gothic tale, a young governess travels to a remote English estate to care for two precocious young orphans.
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Fort Worth Opera
Aug 27, 20207 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Aug 21, 202010 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Aug 13, 20207 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Aug 4, 20208 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jul 29, 20209 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jul 21, 20206 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jul 16, 20205 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jul 9, 20207 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jul 7, 20202 min read
FWO Archives (1970): Company Stages First Full-Length American Opera, 'The Ballad of Baby Doe'
Soprano Karan Armstrong headlined Fort Worth Opera's 1970 production of Douglas Moore and John LaTouche's opera set in 20th century Colo
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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 23, 20206 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 23, 20202 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 18, 20201 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 18, 20201 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 18, 20201 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 16, 20206 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 12, 20207 min read
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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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 11, 20203 min read
FWO Archives: A Conductor's Perspective on 'Carmen' from Maestro Joe Illick (2017 Festival)
The following comes from Fort Worth Opera's 2017 Fall issue of FWO's magazine 'Vanguard.' Joe Illick shares his perspective on 'Carmen.'
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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 7, 20201 min read
FWO Archives (1949-1953): Fort Worth Opera's 1st General Director, Austrian Conductor Karl Kritz
Austrian native Karl Kritz, an associate conductor for The Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera, became the Fort Worth Civic...
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Fort Worth Opera
Jun 6, 20203 min read
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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