A candle is snuffed, two hands touch in the darkness—and the love story of a poor poet and a young seamstress flares to life, burning until it can burn no more. Since 1896, audiences across the world have felt the powerful pull of Puccini’s heart-wrenching La bohème,...
A candle is snuffed, two hands touch in the darkness—and the love story of a poor poet and a young seamstress flares to life, burning until it can burn no more. Since 1896, audiences across the world have felt the powerful pull of Puccini’s heart-wrenching La bohème,...
A candle is snuffed, two hands touch in the darkness—and the love story of a poor poet and a young seamstress flares to life, burning until it can burn no more. Since 1896, audiences across the world have felt the powerful pull of Puccini’s heart-wrenching La bohème,...
A candle is snuffed, two hands touch in the darkness—and the love story of a poor poet and a young seamstress flares to life, burning until it can burn no more. Since 1896, audiences across the world have felt the powerful pull of Puccini’s heart-wrenching La bohème,...
Goodness triumphs in Rossini’s frothy delight, Cinderella, presented in a whimsically bright and colorful production that has enchanted audiences across the globe. In this version of the story, Cinderella’s name is Angelina; she has a wicked stepfather, Don Magnifico;...
Just under the surface, every family has its unresolved problems and mysteries. Verdi’s Il trovatore embraces this complexity ––a Romani curse, disappeared children, mislaid identities, deadly fires, unfathomable loss. But something elemental emerges from the shadows...
From the moment Maria and Tony step onto the dance floor, their intense chemistry sends sparks flying, igniting a romance destined for tragedy. The gorgeous young pair have fallen in immediate, all-consuming love—a love made dangerous by the turf war raging between...
Wagner’s Tannhäuser receives a highly anticipated new staging from internationally acclaimed director Francesca Zambello—and Houston audiences will be the first to experience her strikingly beautiful production. Lust and love, diametrically opposed forces in the...
Houston finally gets its chance to see Breaking the Waves, the critically acclaimed contemporary opera from sought-after composer-and-librettist team Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, which made its world premiere in 2016. Adapted from the art film by Lars von Trier,...
Each year, following an extensive international search, a small group of talented young artists is selected to compete in HGO’s annual Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias—and perhaps win an invitation to join the prestigious Butler Studio. For the first...
HGO audiences will get their first glimpse of the Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio class of 2025 at this beloved annual event. The emerging artists training with the program will present a series of staged, costumed excerpts from a variety of...
In collaboration with UHD’s 50th Anniversary. Laren Clayton studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Her creativity straddles public art, graphic design, and studio fine art. Lauren works out of Stamford, Connecticut. Trevor Lightsy works...
The Hobby Center Presents Live at the Founders Club Jazz singer Raquel Cepeda and pianist Marvio Ciribelli bring Brazil to Houston with “Brazil Samba Jazz.” The concert will feature the sensual and energizing rhythms of Brazil and will include classic tunes by Antonio...
Join Peruvian two-time Latin GRAMMY Award winner Tony Succar and his orchestra for a unique blend of salsa, jazz, pop, and Afro-Latino-inspired sounds! Tony will be joined by his mother, singer Mimy Succar, a distinguished ambassador of Peruvian and Japanese music in...
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...
Since the invention of the silver screen, adventurous, popular composers have applied their creativity and storytelling impulse to soundtracks. Great films are often born with great music: a one-of-a-kind fingerprint, a calling card that manages to recall the...
In Redefine or Redesign, presented in partnership and gratitude with our season host the Houston Saengerbund, listeners will join the Axiom Quartet on a scavenger hunt through the 300-year saga of the German string quartet. Interspersed between candid conversations...
The Community Artists’ Collective (The Collective) will celebrate its 37-year history of serving the arts and cultural community with FestEve! 2024 at the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby Street, Houston 77002, Saturday, September 28. The evening, which begins at 6 p.m. with a...
Ars Lyrica presents Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love and War, inventive transformation of the Renaissance song genre. With an operatic intensity that contrasts warmth and tenderness of love against the bloodshed of war, this song cycle stands as a timeless...
