The Dallas Opera is dedicated to the cause of commissioning and presenting great new operas and outstanding productions of the finest works in the repertoire, while creating enthusiastically engaged audiences for this exceptional art form. The company earned nearly universal acclaim for its 2010 world premiere production of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, widely thought to be the most important new American opera of the past quarter-century.

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Founded in 1946 and accordingly one of the country’s oldest opera companies, Fort Worth Opera showed there was no ossification in its bones by undergoing a radical shift in 2007. Under general director Darren K. Woods, the company shifted from its traditional fall/winter/spring season to the Fort Worth Opera Festival, producing three or four works in just over two weeks in late May and early June. The change “has absolutely …more…