Ten Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio artists to perform variety of operatic scenes at popular annual event What: The Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio presents the annual Butler Studio Showcase on September 14, 2023, in the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center. Tickets are available at HGO.org. The event will give audiences their first look at the talented Butler Studio class of 2024 during an intimate evening designed to […]
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Houston Grand Opera Concludes 2022–23 Season with Strauss’s Salome
Spellbinding opera to bring a trio of anticipated company debuts On April 28, 2023, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will open Richard Strauss’s erotic psychodrama Salome, the final opera in the company’s bold 2022-23 season. The production, making its U.S. premiere, will feature important company debuts from Ukrainian-Canadian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, Spanish director Francisco Negrin, and, in the title role, soprano Laura Wilde. Based on Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play, the gripping, scandalous one-act opera retells the biblical story of […]
Houston Grand Opera Offers Tickets Starting at $30 for Popular Mariachi Opera, El Milagro del Recuerdo
Experience this Houston holiday favorite with great deals from HGO Tickets to Houston Grand Opera’s heartwarming, family-friendly mariachi opera, El Milagro del Recuerdo/The Miracle of Remembering are in high demand and currently available, starting at $30 per ticket. The HGO holiday production opens Thursday, December 8 and runs through Sunday, December 18, and allows Houston audiences a special opportunity to see a full-scale opera at these attractive price points. El Milagro del Recuerdo tickets are on sale now at HGO.org […]
Houston Grand Opera Opens Must-See New Production, The Wreckers, on October 28
Dame Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece receives its first-ever full-scale production from a major American opera company On October 28, 2022, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will open a must-see new production of Dame Ethel Smyth’s epic 1906 opera The Wreckers. This will be the first-ever full-scale production of The Wreckers from a major American opera company. Despite being one of the world’s great operas, The Wreckers was neglected for over a century after its premiere, as the world wasn’t ready for a woman […]
Houston Grand Opera Opens the 2022-23 Season with La traviata on October 21
Verdi’s opera returns to the Wortham Theater five years after Hurricane Harvey What: On October 21, 2022, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will open the 2022-23 season with Verdi’s La traviata, one of the world’s most beloved—and performed—operas. This production represents Houston audiences’ first opportunity to see award-winning director Arin Arbus’s full vision for the opera at the Wortham Theater Center. In 2017, only weeks after Hurricane Harvey flooded HGO out of its home at the Wortham, the company […]
Houston Grand Opera Stages the Third Annual Giving Voice on March 19
Soprano Nicole Heaston hosts and performs in the popular celebration of diverse voices On Saturday, March 19, 2022, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will stage the third annual Giving Voice concert, a special celebration of opera’s diverse artists that has become a beloved company tradition. Giving Voice was created by Lawrence Brownlee, one of the world’s most sought-after tenors, in 2020, and has since been replicated by other companies. The popular series showcases the diversity of opera artists while seeking to attract diverse audiences […]
From Page to Stage to Livestream – Houston Grand Opera Celebrates the World Premiere of The Snowy Day with Historic Opening Night
The highly anticipated opera premieres at The Wortham Theater Center and in homes on December 9 With excitement building as the world premiere of The Snowy Day nears, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to announce the Opening Night livestream of this new company-commissioned work. Continuing its mission of breaking down barriers to the artform, this historic moment for the company arrives just in time for the holidays. On December 9, HGO will not only premiere highly […]
Houston Grand Opera Opens Dialogues of the Carmelites on January 14
Director Francesca Zambello returns to HGO to helm the Houston premiere On January 14, 2022, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will open Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc’s tragedy in two parts, takes place during the French Revolution and asks the question: what makes a martyr? Seeking to protect herself from the guillotine, young aristocrat Blanche leaves her family and trembles her way to the Carmelite convent. But as the bedridden prioress admonishes the fearful Blanche, it is nuns […]
From Page to Stage—Houston Grand Opera Presents World Premiere of The Snowy Day this December
HGO creates 71st world premiere with new opera based on the beloved children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats Houston Grand Opera presents the highly anticipated world premiere of The Snowy Day December 9th through 19th at Houston’s Wortham Theater Center. Created by composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney, The Snowy Day is based on the classic children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats. Written in 1962 and awarded the Caldecott medal in 1963, The Snowy Day broke the color barrier in mainstream publishing by being embraced […]
Houston Grand Opera Returns to Live Performance with Carmen
Audience favorite opens HGO’s 67th season On October 22, 2021, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will celebrate its return to live performance at the Wortham Theater Center with audience favorite Carmen. A tragedy of obsessive love, Bizet’s Carmen from 1875 is considered the most popular opera in the world today. It is impossible not to smile with recognition when the well-known first notes of the prelude ring out from the orchestra. Mezzo-soprano and HGO Studio alumna Carolyn Sproule takes on the […]