{"id":148497,"date":"2026-02-03T03:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148497\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:31:14","slug":"fort-worth-opera-to-present-cowboys-culture-with-clifton-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148497\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Opera to Present Cowboys &#038; Culture with Clifton Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=Fort+Worth+Opera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth Opera<\/a> will present \u201cCowboys &amp; Culture,\u201d a multimedia concert celebrating the music, stories and spirit of the American West on Feb. 5, 2026, at the Kimbell Art Museum\u2019s Renzo Piano Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will be presented during the closing week of the Fort Worth Stock Show &amp; Rodeo and will feature acclaimed dramatic tenor <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=Clifton+Forbis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clifton Forbis<\/a>. He will be joined by soprano Melissa Martinez, mezzo-soprano Madeline Coffey, tenor Coleman Dziedzic, and bass-baritone Jos\u00e9 Olivares.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will showcase projected artwork by contemporary Western painter Kevin Chupik and Fort Worth Opera Producing Director Kurt Howard will interview Chupik live onstage.<\/p>\n<p>The evening\u2019s musical program includes Western-themed operatic repertoire and American works, with selections from Puccini\u2019s \u201cLa Fanciulla del West,\u201d Craig Bohmler and Steven Mark Kohn\u2019s \u201cRiders of the Purple Sage,\u201d and H\u00e9ctor Armienta\u2019s \u201cZorro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Angela Turner Wilson, General and Artistic Director of Fort Worth Opera said, \u201cAs the Opera marks its 80th season, we wanted to embrace all of Fort Worth in the celebration. \u2019Cowboys &amp; Culture\u2019 isn\u2019t just a slogan here, it\u2019s what we\u2019ve always been: proud of our Western heritage, and proud of the artistic tradition that has grown alongside it for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forbis added, \u201cBefore my day and anybody else\u2019s, there were traveling companies going from city to city doing shows. And it\u2019s not just back then. Opera isn\u2019t this rare thing that only exists in some far-off world. Even for the performers, most of us are just normal folks. One of my favorite things about working festival season at the Met was going down to the canteen and seeing friends you haven\u2019t seen in a year, just sitting and having lunch. It\u2019s like coming home, right there in the biggest city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Related Stories\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Opera will present \u201cCowboys &amp; Culture,\u201d a multimedia concert celebrating the music, stories and spirit of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[61873,116,118,117,19945],"class_list":["post-148497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-clifton-forbis","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}