The Dallas Opera Announces its 2025/2026 Season Featuring four New-to-Dallas Productions:

Carmen—the U.S. Premiere of a Reconstruction of the original 1875 Opéra-Comique Production
Dialogues Of The Carmelites—a Dallas Opera premiere
The Little Prince—a Dallas Opera premiere
Don Carlo—a new TDO production
and the
Tenth Anniversary of the Hart Institute for Women Conductors

Plus: Soprano Erin Morley in Recital, Two Family Operas, and the National Vocal Competition

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DALLAS, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ian Derrer, The Dallas Opera's Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO, and Emmanuel Villaume, The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director, announce programming for The Dallas Opera's 2025/2026 Season at the Winspear Opera House.

The Dallas Opera's (TDO) 68th season features four mainstage productions, all new to Dallas as company or U.S. premieres:

The premiere of Bizet's Carmen—one of the most iconic love stories in all of opera—took place 150 years ago in Paris. Celebrating this landmark anniversary, The Dallas Opera presents the United States premiere of a new production that recreates the original Opéra-Comique staging with sets and costumes faithfully designed as they were in 1875. (October 17, 19, 22, 25 and 26, 2025)

The new-to-Dallas production of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites is a true tragic drama about the martyrdom of more than a dozen nuns during the French Revolution. (November 7, 9, 12, and 15, 2025)

French literature takes center stage with The Dallas Opera premiere of Rachel Portman's charming 2003 setting of classic French novella The Little Prince, with a libretto by Nicholas Wright. Notably, this production marks the first time that TDO has presented an opera by a female composer. (February 6, 8, 11 and 14, 2026)

A new 1884 four-act production, sung in Italian, of Verdi's dark and masterful Don Carlo—last seen in Dallas more than three decades ago—concludes the mainstage season. (February 27, and March 1, 4, and 7, 2026)

Annual events in the 2025/2026 Season include the Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus Family Recital, featuring acclaimed coloratura soprano Erin Morley; two family operas: The Little Prince and The Three Little Pigs; the National Vocal Competition; and a special anniversary edition of the Hart Institute for Women Conductors, celebrating its 10th season.

Subscription renewals for the 2025/2026 Season are available now. Packages start at $94 for all four operas, with subscribers saving up to 25% of the cost of purchasing operas individually.

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