Sherry Cheng

It should surprise no one that in Houston, the fourth largest city in the country, the art of opera is thriving on the Wortham Theater Center stage downtown as well as in urban breweries and suburban performing arts spaces.

The sign outside the Northwest Houston church where the Monarch Chamber Players opened their sixth season read, “We bring the concert hall to your neighborhood.”

A conversation with Mario Aschauer, Founder and Artistic Director of Harmonia Stellarum Houston (HSH), often involves plunging down rabbit holes and winding through meandering paths before the subject emerges with newfound depth and clarity.

Mythological tales abound in Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2025-26 season, and no wonder.

A ROCO concert can hit all the senses at once.

Handel’s Theodora was the least-performed oratorio during the composer’s lifetime, yet he considered it one of his most important and finest creations.

Houston’s conductorless string ensemble Kinetic is celebrating its tenth anniversary this season.

Hidden in the mountains north of Lake Como, the beautiful Chiesa dei Santi Eusebio e Vittore in the town of Peglio sits forgotten in time and space.

Ars Lyrica presented the Houston debut of a rarely heard Handel opera this weekend at Zilkha Hall (May 24-25, 2024), exactly 309 years after its sensational premiere at the King’s Theatre in London in 1715.