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Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is an American opera company located in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and three local Houstonians, [ 1 ] the company is resident at the Wortham Theater Center .
August 15–21: Porgy and Bess – Houston Grand Opera; August 22–28: Sweet Charity – Carol Lawrence; August 29 – September 4: Chicago MP 77a – Jerry Orbach ^77a The Broadway production was scheduled to close for one week to transfer to the Muny for this special engagement. As it turned out, the Broadway show closed – after 936 ...
The Houston Ballet began its residency at the center on September 2, 1987, with Janie Parker and Li Cunxin starring in the world premiere of Ben Stevenson's production of Romeo and Juliet. [4] This was followed by Houston Grand Opera's first season, on October 15, 1987, with Plácido Domingo and Mirella Freni in a production of Verdi's Aida.
Patrick Summers (born August 14, 1963) is an American conductor best known for his work with Houston Grand Opera (HGO), where he has been the artistic and music director since 2011, and with San Francisco Opera, where he served as principal guest conductor, 1999–2016.
The opera's story celebrates the American spirit of exploration and features Sir Walter Raleigh, an astronaut on the Space Shuttle Columbia and the mythological icon Lady Columbia. The opera was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and premiered on September 23, 2015 in a production by Kevin Newbury and conducted by Timothy Myers.
Miller Outdoor Theatre is an outdoor theater for the performing arts in Houston, Texas. It is located on approximately 7.5 acres (30,000 m 2) of land in Hermann Park, at 6000 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, Texas 77030. It was first known in 1922 as Miller Memorial Theatre, for its benefactor Jesse Wright Miller, a mining engineer and cotton broker.
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Mobile Opera is an opera company located in Mobile, Alabama and is one of the oldest performing arts organizations in the United States, [1] as well as the oldest in the State of Alabama, having been founded as the "Mobile Opera Guild" in 1945.