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9 February 2022
ARTS ENTERTAINMENTPERFORMING ARTS

With ‘Madame Butterfly,’

the Dallas Opera gears up

for its first full

production since COVID

began

After months of planning, millions in relief loans and stresses
of COVID, the company returns to grand opera at the

Winspear.

A group of stage hands and carpenters, including George Shaw, left, Erik McCullough, center, and Gabby
Kellerman, far-right, push and pull a block of chairs that was removed from the audience to allow for a larger
orchestra pit, as the Dallas Opera's production team installs the set for Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly,' on Sunday,
Feb. 6, 2022 at the Winspear Opera House in downtown Dallas.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)