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Local arts groups officials offer fall-season highlights
Fall arts season musts: Cliburn winner Nobuyuki Tsujii, Sweeney Todd and Before Night Falls.
By CHRIS SHULL
Special to dfw.com
September means the start of the new season for many of the local performing-arts organizations.
We asked their leaders to tell us which one highlight of the season they were most looking forward to — an event that simply should not be missed.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Ann Koonsman, president
Don’t miss: Violinist Midori with the FWSO
"We are thrilled to welcome Midori back to Fort Worth to perform with our wonderful orchestra," Koonsman says. "Her artistry, passion and commitment to music education for the next generation are exceptional."
Details: 2 p.m. Sunday
Bass Hall, Fort Worth
$8-$78
817-665-6000; www.fwsymphony.org
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Adams, president, Dallas Symphony Association
Don’t miss: Conductor Jaap van Zweden’s sophomore-year opening concert; the Meyerson Symphony Center’s 20th anniversary
"Last season was so wonderful, it’s exciting to anticipate what [van Zweden’s] going to do working with the orchestra again," Adams says. "We’re also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Meyerson. We can never stop reminding people what a wonderful treasure we have in this concert hall, acknowledged as one of the best in the country and the world."
Details: 2:30 p.m. Sunday
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
$17-$114
214-692-0203; www.dallassymphony.com
The Van Cliburn Foundation
Alann Bedford Sampson, foundation chairman
Don’t miss: The Cliburn’s season opener, featuring blind Japanese pianist and 2009 Cliburn co-gold medalist Nobuyuki Tsujii
"Nobuyuki Tsujii’s brilliance stuns the imagination and opens new doors to the genius of the composers," Sampson says. "New understandings of Beethoven and Chopin await us at Nobu’s concert."
Details: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Bass Hall
$15-$90
817-335-9000; www.cliburn.org
Fort Worth Opera
Darren K. Woods,
general director
Don’t miss: Before Night Falls during the 2010 Opera Festival
"The must-see show of the Fort Worth Opera Festival season is the world premiere of Before Night Falls," Woods says. "It is a truly inspiring and touching story; the music is lush with Cuban and Latin American overtones. This will be the surprise hit of the year."
Details: 8 p.m. May 29, 2 p.m. June 6
Bass Hall
$17-$154
817-731-0726; www.fwopera.org
The Dallas Opera
Jonathan Pell, artistic director
Don’t miss: Otello at the Margot
and Bill Winspear Opera House
"There are many reasons why our Otello is a must-see performance," Pell says, "but foremost must be that it will be the first opera production in the new Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. This long-awaited new home for the Dallas Opera will be state of the art. Otello is regarded by many as Verdi’s greatest opera and will be seen in a new production created especially for the opening."
Details: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23, 28 and 31 and Nov. 5, and 2 p.m. Oct. 25 and Nov. 8
Winspear Opera House, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
$15 and up
214-443-1000; www.dallasopera.org
Casa Mañana
Wally Jones, president and executive producer
Don’t miss: Sweeney Todd
"Casa Mañana has some great shows this year in our Best of Broadway season, and I am especially excited about Sweeney Todd, a powerful musical with one of the best scores ever written," Jones says. "This will be a wonderful show to see at Casa Mañana Theatre."
Details: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10-12, 8 p.m. Nov. 13-14, 2 p.m. Nov. 14-15, 7 p.m. Nov. 15
Casa Mañana Theatre, Fort Worth
$35-$55
817-332-2272; www.casamanana.org
Texas Ballet Theater
Lisa Kaczmarek, TBT dancer
Don’t miss: "The Russian Masters"
"Our first performance of the season, 'The Russian Masters,’ is definitely a must-see," Kaczmarek said. "It is always thrilling to perform one of Balanchine’s classics, Serenade, as it demands grace, strength and passion from the women in
the company. It will be exciting to add the classic Polovtsian Dances by Fokine to the company’s repertoire. And many wonderful ballet variations beautifully demonstrate
the diversity and power of our dancers."
Details: 8 p.m. Oct. 2-3, 2 p.m. Oct. 4
Bass Hall
$19-$99
877-828-9200; www.texasballettheater.org
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