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Videos On The Making Of Next Season’s World-Premiere Opera, ‘JFK’

by Jerome Weeks 17 Apr 2015 4:52 PM

Fort Worth Opera commissioned composer David Little and librettist Royce Vavrek to create a new opera for the company’s 70th season next year. Here’s what they’ve been up to.

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Here are librettist Royce Vavrek and composer David T. Little in two videos on the origins and background of their opera, JFK, to premiere April 23, 2016 at the Fort Worth Opera Festival. Videos provided by the festival.

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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