 It now performs 3-4 operas per year each spring in Bass Performance Hall located in the downtown area of Fort Worth, Texas.The Fort Worth Civic Opera Association, now known as Fort Worth Opera, was founded by three women, Eloise MacDonald Snyder and Betty Spain, both former opera singers, and pianist and composer Jeanne Axtell Walker.In seven months, the trio pulled together a full-scale production of Verdi's "La Traviata," performed on November 25, 1946, in a building now known as the Cowtown Coliseum located in the Fort Worth Stockyards.