By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Oct 12, 2009, at 10:48 AM Updated on 10/12 at 10:48 AM
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On Sunday, we ran a story about Dallas' continued efforts to revitalize its downtown as an ultimate arts destintation with this week's opening of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, with the new Wyly Theater and the Winspear Opera House.
Critics are already weighing in on the new facilities. The Los Angeles Times' Christopher Hawthorne, that paper's architecture critic, likes bits and pieces of the project (the Rem Koolhaas-designed Wyly, in particular) but thinks the whole concept of an arts district -- especially one that wants to contain so many architecturally diverse buildings -- is "not so much a discredited philosophy of city-making as a consistently underachieving one."
The Dallas Morning News music critic Scott Cantrell, who is also well-versed in architecture, agrees with the concept that the Winspear Opera House is a welcoming place -- a quality most people do not ordinarily associate with things such as opera. He also is more concerned -- and rightly so -- with what the hall is going to sound like as he is what its exterior looks like. And that, he says, will have to wait until Oct. 23, when the Dallas Opera performs for the first time in the hall, presenting Verdi's "Otello."
Full stories are here:
Read the story: Strangers in Dallas' art scene Read the story: Winspear Opera House: Sleek venue welcomes patrons with sonic, visual intimacy
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