Dallas Bono, Artistic Director
Dallas Bono has performed over 30 roles as a leading tenor with renowned opera companies including The Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Baltimore Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera in the Heights, Arizona Opera, Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, The Austin Lyric Opera, and the New York Grand Opera, to name a few. He has been honored to sing under the direction of internationally renowned conductors such as Emmanuel Villaume, Christian Badea, Henry Holt, Vincent LaSelva, Victor DeRenzi, and William Weibel. Dallas has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall, the Juilliard Opera Center, and Alice Tully Hall. Equally at home in Musical theater, he has performed leading roles in Candide, South Pacific, The Fantastiks, Jekyll and Hyde, My Fair Lady, and even Edna Turnbladt in Hairspray.
Dallas operates a successful local voice studio and his students have gone on to sing in renowned opera and music theater programs nationally and abroad. Dallas most recently appeared in RespirOpera’s inaugural production as Luigi in Il Tabarro and The Third Hermit in The True Story of Cinderella. In 2023 Dallas performed the lead role of George in the comedy, Moon Over Buffalo, and will sing Adolfo Pirelli in Sondheim’s immortal classic, Sweeney Todd.
Dallas narrates audiobooks, is an author with the Knight Literary Agency, and is a black belt in the mixed martial art, Kyuki-do.