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2020/2021 Season Embrace the Passion! Subscribe now & save up to 30% All new-to-Dallas productions! Season Sponsor: Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5”W x 10.875”H Folded (17”W x 10.875”H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 Photo by Karen Almond Photo by Karen “When I go to The Dallas Opera at the Winspear, I totally escape my ‘every day.’ The gorgeous singing and the music, the terrific sets and stories — they just take me to another world for a while, and I have a GREAT time.” - Fred Durham, Dallas Opera Fan Oce of Arts & Culture 2 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5"W x 10.875"H Folded (17"W x 10.875"H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 Contents 6-15 2020/2021 Operas 6-7 The Marriage of Figaro 8-9 Lohengrin 10-11 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 12-13 Orfeo ed Euridice 14-15 Tosca 16-17 The Dallas Opera Family Season 17 Jack and the Beanstalk 17 Dr. Miracle 18-19 Concerts 18 Titus Art Song Recital by Benjamin Appl 19 Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase 19 National Vocal Competition 20 Subscriber Perks 21 New! The Greenhorn Series for Newcomers 22 Calendar 23 Seating Chart 24 Season Listing and Full Series Pricing 25 Flex and Greenhorn Series Pricing 26-27 Celebrations 26 FIRST NIGHT 27 VIVA DIVA! starring Joyce DiDonato 28-29 Donor Activities 28 Friends of The Dallas Opera 29 Inner Circle Donors 30-31 The Dallas Opera Experience Projected English Supertitles for every opera Cover photo by Corey Weaver Orfeo ed Euridice, Des Moines Metro Opera 3 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5”W x 10.875”H Folded (17”W x 10.875”H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 Welcome! Ian Derrer The Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO Welcome to The Dallas Opera’s 2020/2021 season, which kicks off Photo by Karen Almond Photo by Karen with The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart’s stories are always relevant, boasting vividly drawn characters with whom we can immediately identify. Look forward to enjoying this incomparable masterwork with exciting, established stars and debuting artists who will definitely create buzz! Wagner’s majestic Lohengrin is one of the most beautiful marriages of myth and music ever created. Brilliantly combining intimacy and spectacle, it’s a standard-bearer for major companies, and our unmatched cast is uniquely suited to take on its extraordinary demands. Few artistic endeavors match the thrill of presenting an operatic world premiere! We do so with Joby Talbot’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The artists in our creative team are visionaries and master storytellers. Share the excitement as they present the next iteration in a creative journey that saw a stunning personal memoir become a bestselling novel in Europe and an award- winning film at Cannes. Myths allow us to see ourselves and our communities at the very deepest human level, as Gluck’s breathtaking Orfeo ed Euridice illustrates so movingly. Marvel at how big this story is in a gorgeous production where dancers, chorus, and just three principal singers create a world where love knows no earthly bounds. Rhapsodic melodies, romantic and political intrigue, unbridled passion and over-the-top death scenes — every ingredient you want in grand opera is yours in Puccini’s Tosca! It’s the grand finale to a wonderful season that also includes terrific special events, a charming Family Series, and the mesmerizing Joyce DiDonato in a sure-to-sellout gala. So embrace the passion that exists on every level in a season of magnificent music, timeless stories, great artists, and inspired productions — presented by your own TDO company, which is joyfully dedicated to bringing you opera at the highest international level. Ian Derrer 4 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5”W x 10.875”H Folded (17”W x 10.875”H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 Emmanuel Villaume The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director We had a great time building The Dallas Opera’s 2020/2021 Season Photo by William Neal — one filled with timeless treasures of the repertoire spanning two centuries: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, both groundbreaking operas from the eighteenth century; Wagner’s Lohengrin, a nineteenth-century work that redefined the art form; and Puccini’s powerful and passionate Tosca, which premiered in 1900. Add to that an eagerly-anticipated twenty-first-century world premiere by the creative team that brought you Everest, and you have a season that has something for everyone! I am honored to conduct three of these masterpieces, including the March 2021 world premiere production of Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — a riveting account of the extraordinary inner life of Jean-Dominique Bauby, an immensely successful French fashion magazine editor who, in 1995, suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. However, his unexpected ability to still control the movement of his left eyelid enabled Bauby to express himself, one letter at a time, in order to connect with loved ones and painstakingly dictate the brilliant memoir upon which this opera is based. Whether you are seeking classical opera experiences, epic romances, or cutting-edge contemporary works — all featuring phenomenal, world-class casts — The Dallas Opera aims to please. We invite you to join us for the very best the opera world has to offer. Emmanuel Villaume Subscribe at dallasopera.org or by calling 214.443.1000 5 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5”W x 10.875”H Folded (17”W x 10.875”H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart October 9, 11(m), 14, 17, 23, 25(m), 2020 For more information on Will there be Figaro and Susanna want to marry — but their boss, the how to subscribe, please predatory Count, has other ideas! An 18th-century poster boy visit dallasopera.org or a wedding–or for the #MeToo movement, he’d like to reassert his feudal call 214.443.1000 a divorce? rights and have his way with Susanna whenever he wishes — #TDOFigaro crushing his despairing wife’s heart as he contemplates a new conquest. Not only that: there are more domestic dramas here than at Downton Abbey, including a hormonally charged teenager causing havoc, and an older woman who says she has the right to marry Figaro! But fear not — because Figaro and the ladies are on the case. Plots are hatched, subterfuge is employed, mayhem and hilarity ensue, and real love triumphs in the end. Matchless music, masterful characterizations, and seriousness behind the smiles make this one of the most brilliant and best-loved comedies of all time. In Italian with English Supertitles Production sponsored by Betty and Steve Suellentrop 6 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5”W x 10.875”H Folded (17”W x 10.875”H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 Lisette Oropesa and Ryan McKinney/Washington National Opera McKinney/Washington Lisette Oropesa and Ryan Photo by Scott Suchman Philippe Sly Figaro Starring Creative Team This French Canadian bass-baritone is “an Philippe Sly* Emmanuel Villaume electrifying talent … with expansive tonal grace, Figaro Conductor interpretive thoughtfulness, and communicative Sara Gartland Kyle Lang fervor.” San Francisco Chronicle Susanna Director and Choreographer Sara Gartland Susanna Golda Schultz* Totally captivating and smart as a whip … that’s Countess Almaviva Benoit Dugardyn Mozart’s Susanna, a role ideally suited to this Andrei Set Designer enchanting young soprano “who is a star through Bondarenko Myung Hee Cho* and through … ” San Francisco Classical Voice Count Almaviva Costume Designer Virginie Verrez Thomas Hase Golda Schultz Countess Almaviva Cherubino Lighting Designer A scene-stealer in the Metropolitan Opera’s Falstaff... Kevin Burdette Alexander Rom “her voice is angelic, every line effortlessly placed, her Doctor Bartolo Chorus Master intonation impeccable.” operawire.com Lucy Schaufer *Dallas Opera debut Andrei Bondarenko Count Almaviva Marcellina Back by popular demand, this extraordinary Ukrainian David Cangelosi baritone sings at all the major houses and triumphed Don Basilio in TDO’s 2016 Eugene Onegin. Production from Washington National Opera 7 20-TDO-003 The Dallas Opera 2020/2021 Season Brochure • 4/4 • 8.5”W x 10.875”H Folded (17”W x 10.875”H Flat) • Built at 100% Proofed at 100% • Mechanical HCK2 • Designed by Tad Dobbs • January 20, 2020 Lohengrin Richard Wagner October 30, November 1(m), 4, 7, 2020 For more information on Sonic majesty and This is Wagner’s medieval fairy tale — the story of a how to subscribe, please villainy to match mystical knight in shining armor, a damsel in distress, and visit dallasopera.org or two formidable adversaries that ooze evil. call 214.443.1000 “Game of Thrones” King Henry needs a hero to save his kingdom from #TDOLohengrin invaders. And the virtuous Elsa needs a champion to clear her of accusations that she murdered her brother — leveled by a throne-seeking venomous knight and his sorceress sister.
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