Although Opera in the Heights mounts a most credible A Little Night Music (1973), Stephen Sondheim’s most accessible musical, there’s a pall over Lambert Hall. If you’re reading…
Read more Sondheim in Waltz Time: A Little Night Music at Opera in the Heights – Houston PressGiacomo Puccini’s penultimate opera, Il trittico (“The triptych”) premiered at the prestigious New York City’s Metropolitan Opera after the successful opening at that company of his Girl of…
Read more Il Trittico: Puccini’s Masterful Triptych – Houston PressMost people with even a hint of knowledge about opera, know Giacomo Puccini wrote the music to his masterpieces La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca. As for his…
Read more Il Trittico: A Trio of Puccini’s Works in One Night at the Opera – Houston PressOpera premieres are very similar to that proverbial box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. We often decry the modern works for their lack of…
Read more Hobson’s Choice Satirizes a Father’s Control Over His Daughters – Houston PressWhen George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a misdiagnosed brain tumor, his friend and colleague Irvin Berlin paid him a heartfelt…
Read more HGO’s Porgy and Bess Has Much to Love – Houston PressBy the time Gaetano Donizetti had written his masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) now blazing at Opera in the Heights, he had already composed 35 operas. Most were…
Read more Going Mad With Beautiful Singing: Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera in the HeightsEven before the curtain went up on its stunning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, Houston Grand Opera had a smash on its hands. General…
Read more The Hills Are Alive at the Wortham With HGO’s The Sound of MusicGrammy 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 Friday as she plays the…
Read more Houston Grand Opera’s The Sound of Music Begins This Weekend. Yodelayheehoo!“I feel I’ve seen this set before,” one longtime Houston Grand Opera subscriber said at intermission on Opening Night of Don Giovanni. She had. HGO has retained the…
Read more HGO’s Don Giovanni Offers Sex, Deceit and a Final Reckoning All Wrapped Up in Mozart’s MusicThere 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 120 performances spread over 13…
Read more Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Houston Grand Opera: The Story of a Serial Seducer on an Epic ScaleFor its 76th world premiere – a feat that rivals if not betters Milan’s legendary La Scala for world premiere operas – Houston Grand Opera unveils for Lunar…
Read more A Night at the (Chinese) Opera; For Kids, No LessIn its most sumptuous production in seasons, Opera in the Heights presents the Tony-winning musical The Light in the Piazza (2005). Composed by Adam Guettel (grandson of iconic…
Read more The Light in the Piazza at Opera in the Heights: That’s Amore
