Music
The devil goes by many names, but for opera (and Goethe) lovers, Mephistopheles is the preferred one. With a talent the size of Samuel Ramey in the role, the devil makes some fine company in the Houston Grand Opera’s dazzling ...
Music
By Giuseppe Verdi Houston Grand Opera April 18, 2007 Aïda: Zvetelina Vassileva Amneris: Dolora Zajick Radames: Marco Berti Carlo Rizzi Conductor Jo Davies: Stage Director Zandra Rhodes: Set and Costume Designer http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Verdi’s Aïda premiered in Cairo in 1871. It ...
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Reveling in Early Music: Shulamit Kleinerman Brings her Expertise and Violin to Revels Houston Revels Houston presents An Elizabethan Celebration of the Winter Solstice for two weekends, December 13-14 and December 20-21, 2008 at Lowe Theater, 2707 Buffalo Speedway (at ...
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Houston Grand Opera by Benjamin Britten Houston TX January 23, 2009 http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Houston Grand Opera continues its stride with year two of their six-year Benjamin Britten cycle with their enchanting production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Combining Shakespeare and opera ...
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Why should musicals own the review format? Anthony Freud at Houston Grand Opera has come up with a way for opera to get in on the fun with Chorus!, a fully staged review of several show stopping famous and not ...
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By Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo (respectively) Houston Grand Opera Wortham Center, Houston, TX October 2008 http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Maria Markina and Brandon Jovanovich in Cavalleria Rusticana. Photo: Felix Sanchez. Houston Grand Opera's recent productions of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria ...
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If Hector Berlioz had not wandered in to see Hamlet one night the world would not now be in possession of his uber-charmer Beatrice and Benedict, his opera-zation of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Houston Grand Opera's recent ...
Dance
Planet Brooks Brain Brooks Moving Company again again Dance Theater Workshop October 7, 2006 If you are still in the doldrums about Pluto being voted out of the galaxy, have I got a new planet for ...
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Houston Ballet's annual Jubilee presented a sampling of repertory snippets and shorter full-length works designed to whet the appetites of ballet lovers and resistors alike. The piece that reminded all of us why, no matter how bad it gets out ...
Dance
The Undead Can Dance Houston Ballet September 23, 2006 Wortham Center, Houston, TX Blood, ballet, fangs, and fun. Who knew they would make a suck-u-lent combo? The folks at Houston Ballet did, who launched into ...
