The OperaTruck will make a handful of public performances in May Author: Sean Giggy Updated: 6:57 AM CDT April 23, 2021 DALLAS — Thanks to COVID-19, the Dallas Opera has been silenced. Last year, when the world shut down, for the first time in its 64-year-history, the opera doors closed. “And we were trying to find ways to keep going,” said Kristian Roberts, the opera’s director of education. How could they perform without an audience? The solution was at the back end of a dump truck. Quincy Roberts owns Roberts Trucking in Dallas. He believes opera can change a person’s life. He knows because it changed his.