Opera Comes to Cowboys Stadium

In football it is known as Jerry’s World, but to everyone else it is Cowboys Stadium – the home of the Dallas Cowboy football team. This April the 100,000 seat mega football palace will be the home of the Dallas Opera when the perform the Mozart opera “Die Zauberflote” – “The Magic Flute”.

While Cowboys Stadium has a capacity to seat over 100,00 fans, only 7,500 of them will be used for the opera. As the Dallas Opera performs the opera on the playing field, opera fans can see the opera performed on the 60 yard wide Dowboys Diamond Vision screen that hangs 90 feet above the field.

The opera will be performed in its original German, but English subtitles will be broadcast on the Diamond Vision screen for fans to see and understand the opera. Since Cowboy Stadium is meant for a football game and not an opera, the Dallas Opera will bring in their own sound equipment for the event.

Cowboy Stadium is one of the most expensive football venues in the United States, but the Dallas Opera’s rendition of “Die Zauberflote” will be free. The concession stands used to feed the thousands of football fans will be open during the opera for hungry fans to partake of the football grub including the beer.

The Dallas Cowboys only use the stadium for eight regular games, two exhibition games, and when the opportunity occurs post season games each year; as a result Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry JonesJerry Jones and his wife Gene – who personally oversaw the artwork hanging in the stadium -, host numerous other events at the stadium throughout the year.