Summary
Organization name
The Dallas Opera
Tax id (EIN)
75-6004746
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
$10,000,000 or more
Counties Served
Dallas
Address
2403 Flora St Ste 500Dallas, TX 75201
Our Needs
Your gift provides the support needed to place the final touches on The Dallas Opera’s upcoming season, while continuing to make possible free community performances, educational programs, and innovative digital programming to opera fans worldwide.
Your donation today would go directly towards:
- Enriching community and educational programs: TDO’s Education Programs provide free and affordable operatic experiences and learning materials to students, teachers, and parents through in-school and after-school programs. OperaTruck is a customized outdoor mobile stage designed to bring free, family-friendly productions to Greater Dallas communities. With your support, pop-up performances will be delivered on this 18-wheel "big rig" truck at various community-focused locations.
- Family Performances of The Bremen Town Musicians and The Little Prince for just $5. These fun, kid-friendly productions help TDO inspire a new generation of opera lovers.
- An exciting celebration of Latin heritage and lively music with Fiesta de la Ópera, a concert and brunch featuring Anthony Leó, and filled with opera classics from Donizetti, Bizet, and more, blended with Latin and salsa music performed with a live acclaimed band.
- Four, full-scale mainstage operas, beginning with Gaetano Donizetti's captivating Elixir of Love, followed by Leoš Janáček's enchanting The Cunning Little Vixen, Giacomo Puccini and Christopher Tin's luminous Turandot, and Richard Wagner’s masterpiece Lohengrin.
- Innovative digital programs on TDO's YouTube channel: youtube.com/thedallasopera! Viewers worldwide can access full-length operas, livestream panels, insider insights, and fascinating original content featuring the world's most admired stars from opera, film, and theater.
- The return of The Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus Family Recital, a special tradition that brings Texas audiences today’s most important song recitalists. The phenomenal soprano, Christiane Karg will join us for an exquisite afternoon at the Moody Performance Hall.
- TDO Artist Development Programs such as The Dallas Opera’s Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors (HIWC) and The Phyllis A. and Thomas H. McCasland, Jr. Lone Star Vocal Competition. HIWC is a groundbreaking Institute that seeks to address the extreme gender imbalance of leadership on the conductor’s podium. The Vocal Competition will feature young and talented opera singers who are just starting out their careers in opera performance.
Mission
The Dallas Opera is a world-class performing arts organization producing outstanding mainstage and chamber opera repertoire, attracting national and international attention, committed to extensive community outreach and education, and managed to the highest possible standards of artistic excellence, accountability, efficiency, and financial sustainability.
The Dallas Opera connects local and global audiences through our world-class performances of both new and traditional works. We sing stories for all generations, harmonizing entertainment, education, and artistry.
Equity Statement
The Dallas Opera believes that we have an obligation to be more reflective of our communities and that the art form, the industry, and the city gain from diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Equity: The Dallas Opera is committed to creating an equitable culture among its staff and board, and across all its programs. The organization will work with its members to implement fair policies and practices that create working environments free of prejudice, discrimination, and misogyny, and that respect and inspire all people equally. Equity means fairness for all, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religion, age, or disability status.
Diversity: Different perspectives, cultural histories, life experiences, and personal stories enrich the style, scale, and subject of new works and the interpretations of the inherited repertoire, and stimulate innovation at the organizational level. Diversity and gender parity recognize the richness of our varied identities and experiences and affirm their contribution to our art form and the communities we serve.
Inclusion: Leadership at The Dallas Opera examines the attitudes, behaviors, and barriers that underlie the art form's exclusive traditions and explores ways to weave new connections into the mosaic of contemporary American life. As we strive to establish mutually beneficial relationships with other arts and non-arts organizations in our surrounding communities, newcomers to opera will be introduced to the art form in a variety of settings and will be welcomed and valued as contributors to programming and organizational decision-making. Inclusion goes beyond numerical diversity to ensure authentic representation, empowered participation, and a true sense of belonging.
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Organization Data
Dallas, TX 75201