abstract:The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicolà Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director.
Mario Ritter tells us more. The Dallas Opera in Texas and four other opera companies hired American composer Jake Heggie to write the opera "Moby Dick."
VOA: special.2010.06.11
Composers interested in writing operas should study the oeuvre of Dominick Argento, whose "The Aspern Papers" (1988) recently had a splendid new production at the DallasOpera, the company that commissioned it and gave the work its world premiere.