2025 Houston Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition

Shepherd School of Music at Rice University 6100 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Annual Metropolitan Opera vocal competition for young opera singers between ages 20-30; they will be heard and advised by national Met Opera judges. The winners go to a regional competition in New Orleans, then onto the New York Metropolitan Opera stage. Winners have this achievement on their resumes and may eventually be part of national […]

Free

A Voice in the Wilderness

Lambert Hall 1703 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Join the Axiom Quartet and University of Houston professor Howard Pollack (author of award-winning biographies of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber) for A Voice in the Wilderness, a lecture-performance exploring the life and work of the important Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Best remembered today for his masterpiece for cello and orchestra, Schelomo, […]

$35.00