Fort Worth Opera has announced that Paula Parkman Parris will join the company as the new Director of Development. Parrish joins the company after serving as Executive Director of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth Advancement Foundation. During her time with the organization, she oversaw $125 million in assets and oversaw the Board of Directors. In addition to her work {…}
Fort Worth Opera has announced that the company’s music education program, Opera FUNatics, will soon be implemented by eight Fort Worth ISD music teachers. Beginning in March of 2019, six elementary schools and two middle schools will teach the curriculum designed by FWO’s Manager of Education and Community Awareness, Sheran Goodspeed Keyton. Keyton said in a press statement, “After the {…}
Fort Worth Opera has revealed that Mexican ensemble Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán will be making a major appearance in the company’s 2019 production of “El Pasado Nunca se Termina (The Past is Never Finished).” The ensemble has been called “The Best Mariachi in Jalisco,” and was founded in 1965 by José “Pepe” Martínez and his brother Fernando Martinez. Since then, the {…}
Fort Worth Opera has announced that its FWO-TCU Lesley Artist Program will be expanding its roster from four to eight artists for the 2018-19 season. The artists will get a chance to perform in the company’s productions of “Hansel and Gretel” and “Three Pigs Remix.” The eight singers chosen, after a nationwide audition process, include sopranos Anne Wright and Janani {…}
Fort Worth Opera will present Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” during the 2018-2019 season as well as elementary student performances of “Three Pigs Remix,” presented through the company’s acclaimed Children’s Opera Theatre program. The company announced the addition noting that the opera will be a fully staged, 60-minute, pop-up production of the enchanting fairy tale opera and will be presented at The Marq {…}
Fort Worth Opera has announced that Margo Jefferson, distinguished author, academic, and cultural critic, will be delivering a keynote lecture on George and Ira Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The lecture will be part of the opening weekend for the 2019 Fort Worth Opera Festival. “I grew up with Porgy and Bess,” said Jefferson. “I’ve been {…}
Fort Worth Opera has announced the casts and creative teams for the 2019 Festival season, including the world premiere of composer-librettist Rachel J. Peters’s opera, “Companionship.” Adapted from the short story by author Arthur Phillips, the opera was selected as the 2018 FWOpera Frontiers showcase and will be fully staged at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. It is the first {…}
In partnership with Ridglea Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth Opera will stage a production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” making it the first time in over a decade they have performed this classic. The production comes about not only as a result of the holiday spirit, but of Fort Worth Opera’s commitment to developing artistic {…}
Fort Worth Opera has announced the 2018 Hattie Mae Lesley Apprentice Artists. The season’s apprentice artists will include soprano Bronwyn White, mezzo-soprano Bridget Cappel, tenor Josh Friend, and bass-baritone Sam Filson Parkinson. Fort Worth Opera will collaborate with the TCU – Texas Christian University Opera Studio for its program. The Apprentice Program chooses four highly-talented young opera singers each year through a competitive nationwide audition process. {…}
Fort Worth Opera is set to announce an intriguing world premiere. The company stated that on August 24, 2017, it will formally announce the 2020 world premiere of “The Last Dream of Frida and Diego,” written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz and Latin Grammy winner, pianist, and classical composer Gabriela Lena Frank. The opera will be set in 1957 {…}
Six months ago, the Fort Worth Opera terminated the contract of then-general manager Darren K. Woods. Now the organization is shifting gears, naming not one replacement, but two. One week removed from announcing the involving of celebrated artist Plácido Domingo in the Fort Worth Opera National Artistic Council, the organization has named Tuomas Hiltunen and Joe Illick as the two {…}