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Dallas Opera announces 2024-25 season
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Two classics never before performed by the Dallas Opera will headline the company’s 2024-25 season. Debussy’s Pelleas and Melisande and Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Euridice will be bookended by the standard rep Verdi La traviata and Puccini’s La bohème. The company again is sticking to only four mainstage productions, although this concentration of resources has been yielding particularly fine performances.
The season also will include a People’s Choice concert, a concert featuring participants in the Hart Institute for Women Conductors, the Titus Family Recital with baritone Christian Gerhaher, two family operas (The Three Little Pigs and Pépito) and the Lone Star Vocal Competition.
(The announcement Anglicizes the titles of Pelléas et Mélisande and Orfeo ed Euridice, but not those of the Verdi and Puccini favorites. All four operas will be sung in their original languages, with projected English supertitles.)
Dreamy and mysterious, set in and around an old castle, Debussy’s opera is about an elusive but magnetic young woman, Melisande, who’s torn between two brothers, Golaud and Pelleas. Sensuous music captures the ambiguities of symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck’s libretto.
Baritone Benjamin Appl, whose performance of Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise in the Titus Family recital series was one of the musical highlights of 2022, will sing the part of Pelleas, with soprano Lauren Snouffer as Melisande and bass Nicolas Courjal as Golaud.
A co-production with Bavarian State Opera will be conducted by Ludovic Morlot.
Told by Virgil and Ovid, the legend of the doomed lovers Orpheus and Euridice has been adapted by poets, novelists, dramatists, filmmakers, composers and choreographers. Coming after the complicated plots and florid vocalism of baroque operas, Gluck’s original 1762 version, in Italian, was revolutionary in its directness. He later produced a considerably revised French version, but the opera will be performed here in the Italian original.
Music director Emmanuel Villaume will conduct a production designed and staged by Joachim Schamberger with countertenor Hugh Cutting as Orpheus, soprano Madison Leonard as Euridice and soprano Amber Norelai as Amore.
Villaume also will conduct La bohème in a revival of the company’s period production directed by Tomer Zvulun. Debuts will include Sylvia D’Eramo as Mimi, Bekhzod Davronov as Rodolfo, Takaoki Onishi as Marcello and Emily Pogorelc as Musetta.
La traviata will be presented in a co-production with Santa Fe Opera, directed by Louisa Muller, with Yaritza Véliz as Violetta, Xabier Anduaga as Alfredo and Alfredo Daza as Germont. Iván López Reynoso will conduct.
Here’s the schedule:
People’s Choice concert: Oct. 5
La traviata: Oct. 18, 20 (matinee), 23, 26 and 27 (matinee)
Pelleas and Melisande: Nov. 8, 10 (matinee), 13 and 16
Hart Institute Showcase Concert: Jan. 25, 2025
Christian Gerhaher Titus Family Recital: Jan. 26
Orpheus and Euridice: Feb. 7, 9 (matinee), 12 and 15
Lone Star Vocal Competition: March 7
La bohème: Feb. 28 and 2 (matinee), March 5, 8 and 9 (matinee)
Subscriptions are on sale now, with confirmed seating for new subscribers starting May 24. Single tickets go on sale July 22. The final matinee performances of La traviata and La bohème will be available only to single-ticket buyers. For information: 214-443-1000, dallasopera.org.
Dallas weather: May 10 morning forecast
Today is by far our most active day of the extended forecast. After our Red River Counties got some severe storms overnight, we expect a mostly quiet morning. Isolated storms are expected to start forming just after noon. The severe threat begins mid-afternoon in a more scattered fashion, before a cold front ushers in widespread rain and strong storms this evening.
DALLAS – A powerful cold front sweeping across North and Central Texas on Monday is expected to trigger a wave of severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail, dangerous winds, and isolated flash flooding.
Severe weather in North Texas
Timeline:
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth warned that while showers and storms will begin developing Monday morning, the risk of severe weather will peak during the afternoon and evening hours as the front advances southward.
We are tracking two distinct phases of the storm system. Initial storms are expected to be “discrete,” or individual cells, which carry a high risk of large hail exceeding 2 inches in diameter. As the evening progresses, these individual storms are forecast to merge into a large cluster or broken line.
Once the storms consolidate, the primary threat will shift toward damaging straight-line winds. Forecasters warned that wind gusts could exceed 70 to 75 mph, speeds capable of downing trees, damaging roofs, and causing power outages.
In addition to the wind and hail threats, the system is expected to dump significant amounts of water. While most areas will see standard rainfall, there is a 10% to 15% chance that some locations could receive up to 4 inches of rain. Isolated flash flooding can happen over these locations.
Live Radar
We are watching how morning activity near the Red River might influence the speed of the cold front. The exact position of that front will be the primary factor in determining where the most intense storms initiate.
Residents are encouraged to monitor local forecasts and have multiple ways to receive weather warnings throughout the evening.
The front is expected to push through the region by Tuesday morning.
7-Day Forecast
The Source: Information in this article is from the National Weather Service and the FOX 4 Weather team.
FC Dallas returns home tonight to host Western Conference rivals Real Salt Lake.
Lineups are in from both sides. Let’s dive into what Eric Quill’s starting group looks like, who is on the bench, and who we believe will see minutes later on in this one.
What Changed From Last Match
If it ain’t broke, right? This is the same group as last week that picked up three points in New York.
FC Dallas Lineup Notes:
Starting XI
Formation: 3-4-3
Bench
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Who should come off the bench?
I almost think you roll out the same group of subs that worked last week in New York. That would be Chris Cappis, Logan Farrington, Sebastien Ibeagha, Sam Sarver and maybe more minutes for Caleb Swann. That, or give Nicholas Simmonds a few more minutes out there.
Key Question Heading Into Kickoff
After ending a couple of streaks last week, can FC Dallas finally put together a complete performance at home?
There is no getting around it: this is a big one for FC Dallas tonight. They need to figure out how to get the most out of their home games here this week (and next) before being gone for three and a half months. If they can replicate what they did last week in New York where the defense was stout, the attack was clinical, and everything else in between came together…there is no reason why they can’t string together a couple of wins in a row here starting tonight.
Suspended: none
International duty: none
Season-ending injury list: Kaka Scabin (knee)
Out: Anderson Julio (Lower leg), Bernard Kamungo (lower leg)
Questionable: none
On Loan: Tsiki Ntsabeleng (Mamelodi Sundowns FC), Enes Sali (Al-Riyadh), Malachi Molina (Nashville SC), Geovane Jesus (North Texas SC), Enzo Newman (North Texas SC)
Unavailable (off-roster): Daniel Baran, Jaidyn Contreras
RSL Lineup Notes:
Formation: 5-4-1
Starting XI
How to watch
📅 Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
⚽️ Kickoff: 7:30 PM
🏟 Venue: Toyota Stadium
📺 Streaming: MLS Season Pass
💬 Gameday Social: #FCDvRSL
☀️ Weather: 87, sunny
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