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The Dallas Opera Reviews

2.7

16% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)
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Ian Derrer

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3.0
27 May 2017

Challenging.

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Pros

Most of the employees are great to work with! Beautiful offices and beautiful venue. State of the art technology (network, infrastructure, computers) due to the awesome IT department. So much fun working in the Arts District.

Cons

Several bad apples that make it difficult to work as a cohesive, collaborative team. Sometimes treated as a FTE and not an actual person. Long hours for many employees which lowers moral. Tone at the very top is discouraging.

2.0
16 May 2023

Performative—on stage and off

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a nice perk to receive free tickets to each production in the season. Attention is also being placed on bringing exceptional talent to the stage. Certain members of the company also understand the value of bringing a dying art into the digital landscape by filming the productions and I applaud them for spearheading an often under appreciated and under funded endeavor.

Cons

Employees are not empowered or encouraged to innovate in their roles. The motto is very much "stick to the status quo because that's how it's always been done." The work environment is filled with gossip from all levels of staff, including the most senior, and double standards are regularly discovered. If you are looking for work/life balance from your next company, this is not the place to find it. On the benefits side of things, there is no paid maternity leave...in 2023.

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The Dallas Opera Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are always looking to grow as an organization and are proud to say that we have recently added Paid Parental Leave to our benefits package in an effort to support working caregivers in the arts.
2.0
25 Aug 2016

Good culture and good people but stuck in the past...

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Pros

Great, great people throughout. Team atmosphere and the employees really care about what they are doing. Beautiful office and relaxed day to day operations.

Cons

The upper management recycle the same ideas over and over again hoping for different results. They are stuck in the past and unwilling to change. In general the marketing ideas are hopelessly status quo. There is a lot of status quo here and this also goes for the lack of opportunities. You will likely be put into a box and you will live in that box with no further opportunities or real say. Overall, this is sad considering the high quality of ideas and people employed here- many of them are going to waste. In my opinion this is a sign of strong personnel and severe mismanagement of resources = poor quality leadership (especially in the Marketing department).

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