FORT WORTH – Fort Worth Opera announces that it will produce a world premiere opera as part of its 2010 Festival. The opera, Before Night Falls, is by Jorge Martín, a Cuban-American composer relatively new to the operatic stage; Before Night Falls will be his first major world premiere.

Fort Worth Opera Studio, a training program for upcoming artists, will produce Amahl and the Night Visitors, this holiday season with four performances in Fort Worth and one in Longview, Texas as part of Opera East Texas’ 2007 Season.

Fort Worth Opera conductor Asher Fisch will sign copies of the Melba recording of Der Ring des Nibelungen prior to the Friday, August 17, performance of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman at McCaw Hall.

Fort Worth Opera announced that it will continue the festival format for the 2008 Season in Bass Hall and that it will add a fourth production to be performed at the Scott Theatre, a small, 481-seat theatre located in the Arts District of Fort Worth. Fort Worth Opera revamped its format in 2007, from a fall/winter schedule to a four-week festival held in May-June.