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At Cowboys Stadium, 14 Thousand See Free ‘Turandot’ – plus Bugs Bunny


by Jerome Weeks 14 Apr 2013 6:51 PM

They also saw Bon Apetit!, an operatic spoof of Julia Child. But attendance for the free-admission triple feature was actually down a bit from the Dallas Opera’s debut last year at Cowboys Stadium.
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Actually, they also saw Susan Nicely send up Julia Child in Lee Hoiby’s tasty curtain-raiser, Bon Appétit! (above).

So, it was a triple feature Saturday at Cowboys Stadium Saturday, when the Dallas Opera presented its second live simulcast there. The production of Puccini’s Turandot attracted 14,000 people to see the show. In advance, 29,000 had signed up for the free tickets online. The evening featured soprano Lise Lindstrom making her Dallas debut, as well as the world’s largest screening of What’s Opera, Doc?, the beloved 1957 Bugs Bunny spoof of Wagnerian operas.

Attendance was down a little from last April, when the Dallas Opera’s first simulcast at Cowboys Stadium drew 15,000 people to see Mozart’s The Magic Flute. But the 50 percent drop between online interest and actual attendance was consistent.

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About Jerome Weeks

Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.

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