The Dallas Opera this week announced its newest initiative: OperaTruck, an 18-wheel flatbed “big rig” that has been customized as an outdoor mobile stage, which can accommodate musicians and singers with appropriate distancing in “pop-up” performances.
The Opera Truck is designed to bring productions of family fare to Greater Dallas communities, TDO officials said. OperaTruck was retro-fitted and donated by Quincy Roberts, a TDO Trustee and TDO Chorus member.
Roberts is also is a trained opera singer, and CEO of Roberts Trucking, the largest Black-owned construction hauler in Dallas.
Ian Derrer, TDO’s Kern Wildenthal general director and CEO, thanked Roberts for this unique gift, saying, “We are so very grateful to Quincy Roberts for his