The Houston Grand Opera isn't alone in seeking to broaden its audience by strengthening ties with Latino communities.
WSJ: At the Houston Grand Opera, It's Alto, Bass, Tenor, Sombrero
The San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and the Minnesota Opera pay more heed to American work.
The Houston Grand Opera has grown its subscriber base by 70% since 2007.
WSJ: At the Houston Grand Opera, It's Alto, Bass, Tenor, Sombrero
For the world premier performances of Salsipuedes, Houston Grand Opera picked up on the drama's zany seagoing vibe and its Caribbean locale.
At the top of Cumberland Street is the city's Grand Opera House.
"Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen" ("Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes, " 1840), after a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, takes up the epic mode of French grand opera.
And that's the production that host Lisa Simeone presents on World of Opera, with Guido Maria Guida conducting the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
Morgan, who was selected to support Joan Armatrading at the city's Grand Opera House last year, said she was looking forward to her second appearance at the festival.
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On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents a production of The Cunning Little Vixen from Houston Grand Opera, sung in English and starring Lisa Saffer in the sharp-eared, title role.
While the Houston Grand Opera will continue to stage traditional productions, the company has created a new arm, called HGOco, whose goal is to bring musical storytelling into communities that traditionally haven't been exposed to opera.
WSJ: At the Houston Grand Opera, It's Alto, Bass, Tenor, Sombrero
Prior to embarking on my legal career, I was a recording artist and songwriter (see website for a full history: www.tinab.tv) and studied opera at the Juilliard School in New York and with Maestro Vincent La Selva at the New York Grand Opera Company.
In Houston, along with her appearance as Alice in Falstaff, she played the title role in Janacek's Jenufa and the role of Love Simpson in Houston Grand Opera's world premiere production of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree productions which have been featured by NPR on World of Opera.
Halo is a grand space opera set against colossal artifacts of a techno-mystic past.
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The hitches continued last week when six performances of Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre scheduled for this month were cancelled as it was found the venue's opening programme was too crowded, and some of the new equipment was not working properly.
She was so upset when Penn Station was torn down, the Metropolitan Opera house, and when it came to Grand Central it was just too much.
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