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Entries tagged with 'Winspear Opera House'700 Sundays ... or did he say 700 Tuesdays?To use a Billy Crystal word, I hate to kvetch about Tuesday's opening-night performance of 700 Sundays at the gorgeous Winspear Opera House. But kvetch I must. My wife and I were sitting in mezzanine seats, near the back of... Some bad sightlines at the WinspearThe advantage of the Winspear Opera House's horseshoe shape is that it brings so many seats relatively close to the stage. But people who've gotten seats toward the front of the side balconies are complaining about partial views of the... Arts District parking ripoffFIFTEEN DOLLARS to park in the Arts District!! That's the latest ripoff by the proprietors of the parking lots between the Meyerson Symphony Center and the Nasher Sculpture Center, and I hear in the area parking garages as well. If... AT&TPAC Winspear Opera House: that CHANDELIER!The winspear's nifty Star Wars chandelier got applause, too, at Friday's night's "Otello," as its inverted cone of slender glowing tubes retracted into the ceiling just before the performance, leaving behind just a pattern of stars. It's great fun.... AT&TPAC Winspear Opera House: other notables in audienceFormer First Lady Laura Bush was there for Friday's opening "Otello," as was Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and lots of other notables. It was great to see Anthony Whitworth-Jones, the former Dallas Opera general director who helped get the Winspear... AT&TPAC Winspear Opera House: major press coverageMajor national and international publications were well represented at Friday's opening performance of the Dallas Opera's "Otello." New York Times chief music critic Anthony Tommasini was there, as were Heidi Waleson of The Wall Street Journal, George Loomis of the... AT&TPAC Winspear: More restrooms neededThat, along with a shortage of bartenders, was THE consistent complaint at Friday's opening "Otello." There were the usual lines outside the ladies' rooms. But at least on the west side of the main floor, the guys were complaining that... That's Broadway: Dallas' arts district could rival Lincoln CenterWhile visiting Dallas last week, I knew the most important thing to do (aside from eating my weight in Tex-Mex) was to check out the new AT&T Performing Arts Center. Dallas' latest devotion to the arts has been featured in... AT&TPAC: Dallas Opera "Otello," Winspear acoustics promisingI went to Tuesday night's dress rehearsal of "Otello," and really liked what I was seeing and hearing. In last week's rehearsal and mixed-bag opening performance, the voices projected powerfully from the stage, but I wanted more presence and weight... AT&TPAC: TERRIBLE time to close Woodall RodgersTXDOT is closing Woodall Rodgers Freeway all weekend, precisely when the Dallas Opera its opening its first production ("Otello") in the Winspear Opera House and Dallas Theater Center opens its first ("A Midsummer Night's Dream") in the Wyly Theatre. With... ATTPAC: Sightlines at the Winspear -- beware the sidesOne problem at the new Winspear Opera House is inherent in the shape of the room -- wider from side to side, but shallower, than, say, the more typically shaped Bass Hall. That makes the room feel remarkably intimate, especially... ATTPAC: Winspear acoustics...can they really be this good?I agree with everything my colleague Scott Cantrell said in his peek at the first gala at the Winspear Opera House last night. I have never heard the orchestral playing coming from the pit with such clarity and power in... ATTPAC: Winspear gala -- The best till lastMy colleague Scott Cantrell had a early deadline and had to miss some of Scene 2, the second of three gala performances opening the new ATTPAC, last night. And anyhow, we were strictly forbidden from "reviewing" the performances, for no... ATTPAC: Fuzzy supertitles at the WinspearIn today's review of the opening opera/ballet program at the Winspear Opera House, I didn't have room to note another problem. The projected supertitles were dim and fuzzy. The type on a cheap 1985 dot-matrix printer would look better than... ATTPAC: Winspear chandelier, curtainI finally got to see the Winspear Opera House's much ballyhooed chandelier and stage curtain Thursday night. Designed by the building's architects, Foster + Partners, the chandelier is a set of more than 300 slender lighted tubes suspended in an... ATTPAC opening: Flora Street blocked off -- DUMB!For all the nice words about making the AT&T Performing Arts Center open and accessible, the City of Dallas worked pretty hard Thursday night to make it as impenetrable as Fort Knox. I'd planned to have dinner at One Arts... ATTPAC Winspear Opera House entrance congestionI really like architect Spencer de Grey's insistence that both people coming off the street and those coming up from the underground parking garage enter the Winspear Opera House TOGETHER. And, at least in clement weather, the porte cochere out... 30 years ago, we scoffed. We whined. We were wrong.It struck me this morning, touring the stunning new AT&T Performing Arts Center, that, given the local population's fluid nature, I was probably one of the few people in the room -- the preview audience included media members, staff members... Video: Dallas officials tour new Winspear Opera HouseCheck out this video of the in-progress Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. Among the numerous performing arts organizations and touring productions, the building will provide space for the Dallas Opera and Texas Ballet Theater. More info on the Dallas... Dallas Opera gets another partner for "Moby-Dick"The Dallas Opera has another partner, the State Opera of South Australia, in commissioning and performing the forthcoming Jake Heggie opera Moby-Dick. Based on the famous Herman Melville novel, the opera will be premiered at the new Dallas Center for... |
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