What we’re about
The Encore Meetup group is organized by art lovers and we welcome others who enjoy the same. Our mission is to promote performing arts within the Dallas-Fort Worth area to generate awareness about the arts community and to enhance intercultural understanding through the arts. We individually take personal interest in ensuring that the performing arts thrive by publicizing high school, community, and professional writers and performers.
Join other enthusiasts to enjoy arts such as theater, musicals, dance, opera, symphony, and museums and art exhibits, as well as art-related cinema and documentaries. Even if you cannot join one of our scheduled events, we hope that you will consider other performances to support our talented local artists.
As part of our group mission, we will sometimes post non-hosted events. These events will be clearly marked as “non-hosted” in the event title.
How it works:
Our volunteer organizers will post events with a description of the performance and details how to purchase tickets, their assigned seat, and how to meet before the performance. We typically meet in the lobby before and after the event and at intermission.
Each attendee is responsible for purchasing their own ticket. We ask for each attendee to confirm when they have purchased a ticket, including their seat number, so that we know how many people to expect. Please keep your RSVP updated if your plans change.
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Francis Poulenc Dialogues of the Carmelites - Opera
Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora Street, Suite 500, dallas, TX, USFrom the venue: Shattering … “austerely beautiful … and utterly wrenching.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
Time travel to 1794 Paris, where France’s Reign of Terror is raging. A frightened young aristocrat enters a convent, desperate to find peace from religious persecution. But as the Mother Superior warns, she has entered a house of prayer, not an escape from reality. Based on a real-life incident, 16 Carmelite nuns—each with her own private demons—must decide if they will live in fear or die together in faith as martyrs on the guillotine.> #### Joyce El-Khoury captures all hearts with “radiant authority” (THE INDEPENDENT) as Sister Blanche; “Uncommonly enchanting” mezzo Stéphanie D’Oustrac (JERUSALEM POST) is Mother Marie; Leah Hawkins, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 Beverly Sills Artist, is the new Prioress; and the remarkable Patricia Racette gives “a masterclass in characterization” (HOUSTON PRESS) as the old Prioress.
Sung in French with projected English titles
Approximately 3 hours, including one intermission.
Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites • The Dallas OperaMy seat is B30 Mezzanine Center
I plan to attend the Pre-Opera talk one hour prior to the performance held at Orchestra level of the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall.4 attendees
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