Talbot & Scheer
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
August 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Digital Rebroadcast
Experience the magic of opera from the comfort of home! The Dallas Opera brings you digital rebroadcasts of your favorite performances. Watch full operas, filmed live at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, streaming free on YouTube all summer long. Don’t miss a moment of the drama, passion, and breathtaking music!
Watch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly free online from August 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025.
Experience this world-renowned true story for the first time as an opera.
Grammy Award–winning baritone, Lucas Meachem, stars as journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby who awakes from a coma unable to move or speak, “locked-in” like a diver at the bottom of the sea. With a mind as brilliant as ever, he writes a best-selling memoir dedicated to his children, blink by blink, with the only part of his body that he can move—his eye.
Like the memoir, the opera scenes move from his memories before the stroke, to his daily life being hospitalized in Berck-sur-Mer, and the flights of his remarkable imagination. The music for this inspiring story will capture your heart from the first note, composed by Joby Talbot, who wrote the film scores for Sing 2 and the soon-to-be released, Wonka.
Grammy® Award winner Lucas Meachem returned to Dallas for this world-premiere debut, leading a staggering cast of opera powerhouses. Sasha Cooke lends her vocal “lushness” (San Francisco Chronicle) to the striking true story, along with Andriana Chuchman’s “glorious sound.” (The Washington Post)
Music Director Emmanuel Villaume conducts this new production from The Dallas Opera
“ Visually dazzling..vividly realized...”
“ With a lyric baritone at once liquescent and well-focused, Lucas Meachem compellingly personifies Bauby’s complexities.”
“ Talbot is a melodic writer, able to capture the feelings and ideas of each character.”
Photos: Kyle Flubacker