Ryan Schabach plays "Buttons" and a "Dog" in Stages repertory Theatre'sPanto Pinocchio.PHOTO: BRUCE BENNETT.
There's a bounty of holiday art activity every ye...
The Italian Girl in Algiers Giant hats, a suspended cage, growing sand castles and balloons in the shape of Italy are just a few of the comic objects blown wonderfully out of proportion in Houston Grand Opera’s production of The Italian Girl in Algiers by Gioacchino [...]...
In Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, happiness is simply one hand to warm another. As a humming audience member made clear, the melodies Puccini wrote are stunning and memorable, making this opera a well-known favorite. It’s hard to capture Puccini’s original, effortless simplicity [...]...
Dallas opera’s season opener Aida stars Texas-born soprano Latonia Moore.Photo courtesy Dallas Opera.
It is the stuff of dreams. Understudy goes on at the las...
Gold medallions, dapper suits, and a man snorting heroin set the new scene of Gioachino Rossini’s Otello. Though still a tragic tale of a father’s prejudice and a daughter’s sense of duty, it is opera’s Scarface. Rossini’s Otello is the first of two Houston opera premieres in Oh!’s [...]...
Alecia L. Lawyer is the founder, executive and artistic director, and principal oboist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO). With a tag line of “the Most Fun You Can Have with Serious Music,” Lawyer takes to heart the job of making classical music welcoming to all [...]...
Three Houston Music Groups Offer New Recordings In the 21st Century you really can find everything on the internet. Thanks to the magic of digital technology, you can find a car, a house or, if you are the Houston Chamber Choir’s artistic director, Robert Simpson, the manuscript [...]...
Steven Stucky's August 4, 1964 on the DSo Live label, distributed by Naxos and now available worldwide.
Dallas Symphony commissions new music based on an obscu...
Tokyo String Quartet’s Final Houston Visit “It’s something like a love affair between the Tokyo String Quartet and the Houston Friends of Chamber Music,” says violinist Kikuei Ikeda. First invited to perform in Houston just seven years after they officially formed at the Julliard School in 1969 [...]...
Jersey Boys
Lexus Broadway Series @ AT&T Performing Arts Center
June 12–July 15, link 2012
There seem to be an increasing number of musicals, medicine th...
Vocalist Andrea Dawson sings a repertoire that swings from Ella to Aretha to BB King to Tracy Chapman ... all in one show on July 12.
Even as they have decide...
Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]...
