Tag Archives: Winspear Opera House

by | October 16, 2026 · 5:57 pm

The Dallas Opera’s Cunning Little Vixen Is the Season’s Wild Card

Most operas are about people. Leoš Janáček wrote one about a fox, and then quietly made it about everything else: love, aging, freedom, and the way the forest keeps going long after any of us are gone.

The Dallas Opera brings The Cunning Little Vixen to the Winspear Opera House starting Oct. 30. It’s been a long wait. The company hasn’t staged this opera in 26 years and hasn’t presented anything by Janáček in 22. This time it arrives in director Barrie Kosky’s production, created for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 2022 and making its North American premiere here in Dallas.

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by | October 2, 2026 · 8:22 pm

Never Been to the Opera? Start With The Elixir of Love

Let’s get one thing out of the way. If your idea of opera is a man in a horned helmet singing for four hours about doom, this is not that opera. (Save the Wagner for March, when The Dallas Opera brings in Lohengrin.)

This one is about a lovesick small-town mechanic, a schoolteacher who is a little too smart for him, a swaggering American soldier, a con man peddling fake medicine, and a bottle of cheap red wine that half the village believes is a magic love potion. Nobody dies onstage. Somebody gets tipsy. Everybody goes home happy. If it were a movie, it would star Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and you’d stop to watch it every time it came on cable.

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by | April 8, 2022 · 12:04 pm

Final Performances of The Pearl Fisher at the Dallas Opera

A tale of love, betrayal, and sacrifice, The Pearl Fishers centers around two friends, Nadir and Zurga, who vow to never let the love of a woman come between them and destroy their friendship. A mysterious priestess arrives to Ceylon, and Nadir recognizes her as his long lost love, Leïla, whom Zurga also loves.

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by | April 5, 2022 · 4:44 pm

Return of the Rat Tour
Coming to Winspear Opera House

The AT&T Preforming Arts Center presents comedian, THEO VON’s Return of the Rat Tour. He announces the date of his Dallas tour stop, May 21, 2022 at the Winspear Opera House. Tickets are on sale at 10  A.M., Friday, April 8, 2022. 

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by | February 22, 2022 · 11:54 am

Sigur Ros at the Winspear Opera House – On Sale Friday at 10pam

Sigur Rós today announce the first dates of an extensive world tour, their first in
nearly five years, taking in Mexico, Canada and the United States this Spring and
Summer. Tickets are on sale at 10am local time on Friday 25 February at this site.

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by | September 10, 2019 · 8:40 am

The Color Purple Premiers on Dallas Stage Jan 7th

The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center announced today that single tickets for the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of THE COLOR PURPLE will go on sale Friday, September 27 at 10 a.m. The Dallas engagement of THE COLOR PURPLE will perform for one week from Tuesday, January 7 through Sunday, January 12, 2020 at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District. Continue reading →

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by | August 26, 2019 · 11:42 am

hearhear Speakers Announced, Go On Sale Aug 30

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The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center announced today that single tickets for the 2019/2020 season of its distinctive speakers series hearhere will go on sale Friday, August 30 at 10 a.m. From the White House to stage and screen; and through space and time – with this series you will hear the imaginations, passion, humor and knowledge of iconic personalities who shape the way we experience our world and each other.  Continue reading →

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by | November 27, 2018 · 12:35 pm

A Christmas Story at Winspear Dec 12-16

From the songwriting team behind the smash hit Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen and the Academy Award-winning film La La Land, A CHRISTMAS STORY – THE MUSICAL, brings the classic 1983 movie to hilarious life on stage! Set in 1940s Indiana, a young and bespectacled Ralphie Parker schemes his way toward the holiday gift of his dreams, an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.

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