At the heart of La bohème is Rodolfo, a young poet with more imagination than money and more feeling than sense. He isn’t written as a grand hero. He’s impulsive, idealistic, occasionally selfish, and deeply in love. That combination makes him feel real—and it’s why he remains one of opera’s essential tenor roles.
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The Dallas Opera, in partnership with AT&T Stadium and with support from our founding sponsor, The Dallas Foundation, is extremely proud to present the company’s fourth stadium simulcast—and the tenth free Dallas Opera simulcast since 2010—scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX (1 AT&T Way, home of the Dallas Cowboys), a week from tomorrow.
Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. The curtain time for that evening’s live performance of Giacomo Puccini’s beloved 19th century masterpiece, LA BOHÈME, from the Shannon and Ted Skokos Stage in the Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas is 7:30 p.m. In between, stadium patrons will enjoy the 1957 Chuck Jones animated masterpiece, “What’s Opera, Doc?” courtesy of WB Classics, voted Number One of the “Fifty Greatest Cartoons of All Time” by a thousand members of the animation field. Continue reading
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The Dallas Opera is preparing to whisk audiences away to the Latin Quarter of Paris for the blockbuster opera of the season: Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 masterpiece, La Boheme, based on Henri Murger’s newspaper serial-turned-novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème.
The Dallas Opera’s enormously popular period production of La Boheme opens on Friday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Subsequent performances will be presented in this limited run on March 15(m), 18, 21, 27 at 7:30 p.m., & 29(m), 2015. Continue reading
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