[ad_1] 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…
[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] Opera premieres are very similar to that proverbial box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. We often decry the modern…
[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] By the time Gaetano Donizetti had written his masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) now blazing at Opera in the Heights, he had already…
[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] “I feel I’ve seen this set before,” one longtime Houston Grand Opera subscriber said at intermission on Opening Night of Don Giovanni. She…
[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…
[ad_1] In its most sumptuous production in seasons, Opera in the Heights presents the Tony-winning musical The Light in the Piazza (2005). Composed by…
