The Dallas Opera launched the festivities with a couple of galas and its production of Othello in October. Right next to the magnificent Meyerson Symphony Center, the Winspear Opera House is visually stunning, and, by every account, the acoustics are breathtaking. The arts district has come alive, and enlivened the entire downtown area. It has been exciting to see this come to fruition, and I too am very proud of the city for what it has achieved. They have repeatedly exclaimed that, finally, the performing arts have a worthy home in Dallas. City leaders have been touting their accomplishment with well-deserved civic pride, and say that this is the largest arts complex outside of Lincoln Center. The center opened just six weeks ago to world-wide critical acclaim for its architecture and acoustics, and the sheer scope of the project which has been thirty years in the making. And so, you may ask, why is this different than any other ballet company using tape? There are many bizarre facts in the back story, some of which I’ll reiterate, but the new wrinkle is that Friday was the opening of this particular production in the brand new Winspear Opera House, the cornerstone of Dallas’ spectacular $354 million AT&T Performing Arts Center. For those of you who have been following this fiasco, you know that we have been protesting the TBT’s performances sans live music for more than a year now. This weekend DFW area musicians began protesting the Texas Ballet Theater’s Nutcracker performances which will run in both Dallas and Fort Worth – without an orchestra.
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