This “new” Oklahoma! reflects something we all know: that the sunny national story we liked to tell ourselves back in the day (say, when we were actually saving the world) skimmed over a lot of darker history. On opening night of Broadway Dallas’ presentation, dozens of attendees bailed at intermission, leaving a noticeably thinned audience for Act Two.Īn initial sense of audience good will toward this old warhorse of the American musical had faded by then, replaced by unease-and that was the intention.Įxperimental director Daniel Fish’s desire to re-work the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is theatrically understandable.

“I’ve never seen the show before, or even the movie,” she said. The Winspear Opera House opened in September 2009, it is the performance home for the Dallas Opera and Texas Ballet Theatre.The woman by the elevator looked a bit grim. There is no disturbance from the Love Field flight path directly overhead or from amplified events in the Annette Strauss Artist Square nearby. But, as it was designed to the threshold of hearing, the result is no background noise, and no mechanical and electrical noise. The building isolation scheme was challenging, requiring the use of large, complex canopy isolators capable of isolating vibration in all directions, floating roof slabs, and acoustic joints throughout the building.

It was designed to achieve world-class opera acoustics, sightlines, and architecture in an auditorium seating 2200 patrons comfortably. Clarity of opera text, a high degree of strength and impact of the sound, and resonance of orchestral sound, all contribute to the ability for singers to excite the room. Sound Space Vision acoustician Bob Essert delivered an auditorium with excellent loudness balance between singers and orchestra. Winspear Opera House achieves a 21st-century sound that grips both opera aficionados as well as supporters of new opera, dance, and musicals.

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