The Dallas Opera will kick off their season with The People’s Choice Concert, featuring favorite and familiar opera arias. Emmanuel Villaume, The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director, leads The Dallas Opera Orchestra in iconic music from a selection of operas spanning the centuries: Bellini’s Norma; Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci; Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Xerxes; Mozart’s The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro; Puccini’s Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, and Manon Lescaut; Bizet’s Carmen and The Pearl Fishers; and Verdi’s Otello and Il trovatore.

The cast of renowned singers includes sopranos Maria Agresta, Kathryn Lewek, Ewa Płonka, and Lauren Snouffer; countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen; tenor Gregory Kunde; baritone Gabriele Viviani; and bass-baritones Mark S. Doss and Michael Sumuel, most of whom are making their debuts with TDO at this performance.