[ad_1] Giacomo Puccini’s penultimate opera, Il trittico (“The triptych”) premiered at the prestigious New York City’s Metropolitan Opera after the successful opening at that…
[ad_1] Most people with even a hint of knowledge about opera, know Giacomo Puccini wrote the music to his masterpieces La Boheme, Madame Butterfly…
[ad_1] When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a misdiagnosed brain tumor, his friend and colleague Irvin…
[ad_1] Michael Sumuel was a high school freshman competing in the all-state auditions when his voice broke. “I was auditioning as a Tenor II.…
[ad_1] As the curtain rises, we see a grey wall with graffiti on it. An ominous drum beat sounds and if we needed any…
[ad_1] Even before the curtain went up on its stunning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, Houston Grand Opera had a…
[ad_1] Grammy Award-winning opera mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has never “officially” yodeled before but she’ll be doing a bit of that on the Wortham stage starting…
[ad_1] There are so many ways to play the title character in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni knows this firsthand because he’s been in…
[ad_1] For its 76th world premiere – a feat that rivals if not betters Milan’s legendary La Scala for world premiere operas – Houston…
