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+1 817-731-0833
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1300 Gendy, Fort Worth, TX, 76107
Arlington Heights
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2.4 miT&P Station
2.5 miFort Worth Intermodal Transport Center
3.1 miGrapevine Vintage Railroad Tickets
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Specialties
Our Mission: To educate, entertain, and expand the horizons of current and future audiences and artists through variety and artistic integrity.
Our Passion: To become recognized internationally as an organization that preserves and expands the transcending Art of opera.
Our Goals:
Self improvement and discovery through Opera.
Training the next world-class Opera singers.
Creating new American Operatic pieces.
History
Established in 1946.
Over coffee one morning in 1946, Mrs. E L. (Eloise) Snyder and Mrs. August (Betty) Spain, both former opera singers, and Mrs. Jeanne Axtell Walker decided it was time for Fort Worth to launch an opera company of its own.
After 60 years of producing opera over the fall and winter, Fort Worth Opera embarked on a monumental change: it condensed its entire schedule to an annual spring festival — with all of its operas and concerts being presented over a four week period and multiple operas being performed on each weekend. The inaugural Fort Worth Opera Festival opened in May, 2007 and featured the company’s first main-stage world première, Frau Margot, by composer Thomas Pasatieri.
Fort Worth Opera remains one of the 14 oldest opera companies in the entire nation, and the oldest continuously performing opera company in Texas.
