Dallas Opera

I mean, wow.

I, you know, one thing that's good about it is like I was the associate conductor of New York City Opera, and I was assistant conductor of the Dallas Opera like 20 years ago when I was really, really young.

And I remember, especially in the States, you know, there's this phil- philanthropy tradition-

Yeah

And she said, okay.

And she played the clarinet for the Dallas Opera.

And she was very talented and beautiful.

She was 40 years old at the time.

She came, miraculous, came out of that, where they said she'd never be able to walk again, talking, she's normal.

She has almost 90% of her intellect back.

She became the lead clarinetist, not just the clarinetist for the Dallas Opera.

She has her own real estate company, met the love of her life.

I'm very ex- proud about that ending.

It's actually performing right now at Opera de Montreal, uh, and will be at the Dallas Opera later this season.

Mm-hmm.

And I hope that it will catch on.

His operatic career has featured major roles such as Baron Ochs in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Sarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust.

He has performed with prominent regional and national opera companies, including Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, Atlanta Opera, and has also covered roles on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera.

Recently, he was offered a main stage debut at the Met for the fall/winter of two thousand twenty-six, but he's unsure if he can pursue it.

A couple of weeks ago, Potter published a retirement letter titled "Why I'm Retiring From Staged Opera at Forty-Three." He emphasized that he isn't walking away because his voice or love for the music has failed, but because the economic model of the opera industry is fundamentally broken for artists.

And and then you kind of had a couple of jobs.

Dallas loved Dallas Opera.

Super excited to see what David does there.

They're one of the people, one of the companies in this business that has managed to somehow stay seemingly, at least on the outside looking in, pretty solvent and really take good care of their singers.

Arts groups across North Texas are marking Hispanic Heritage Month with special performances.

Emilio Alvarez from our sister station, WRR, previews what the Dallas Opera has on tap for this Sunday.

It is once again Hispanic Heritage Month.

And the Dallas Opera is hosting a fiesta at the Winspear Opera House this Sunday to celebrate.

For KERA and WRR, I am Emilio Alvarez.

David Lomeli, the CEO of the Dallas Opera, wants to invite the community to his home.

And when I invite people to my home to like to do a party, to do a fiesta, normally David Lomeli is going to cook, right? He's going to make tacos, he's going to grill, he's going to make salsa, he's going to do a full production that basically people are going to be arriving by the time he's finishing to eat.

So they experience, you know, that type of thing, the heat of being in the house.