Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season
After staging its first full-length opera last season, Houston’s Ars Lyrica is giving itself a year’s break before it presents the second.
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Texas Lens: The Most Important Work We Do—Scenes from I Am My Future
Sometimes the most meaningful musical experience transpires in the most unexpected place.
Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season
Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.
Apollo Chamber Players Concludes 20×2020
The project could hardly have a catchier title: 20x2020. But the Apollo Chamber Players faced the challenge of bringing it off. With only six years to go, could the group choose and commission 20 composers to create works it could premiere by 2020?
Texas Music Festival Turns 30
When Immanuel and Helen Olshan founded the Texas Music Festival (TMF) 30 years ago at the University of Houston, they had their eyes on the future.
Artistic Partners, New Works, and Historic Musical Moments: Houston’s ROCO at 15
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Houston’s River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) to anoint a conductor as its music director. Being player-driven is in ROCO’s DNA.
Artful Summer Travels: Santa Fe Opera & Crested Butte Arts Festival
Once Texas’ summer torpor hits, escaping the heat may be priority No. 1. If you’re looking for a reason to flee to a higher, cooler altitude, Santa Fe Opera (June 28-Aug. 24) offers a world premiere, the company’s first staging of a 20th-century classic, and new productions of two perennial favorites.
Dallas Opera’s Season of Celebration
The Dallas Opera commemorates a handful of anniversaries next season, and the most notable involves one of your not-so-catchy numbers.
In a city filled with festivals, Fusebox forges its own path
This is how you might experience Fusebox Festival this year, running April 16-21.
Fort Worth Opera Festival Kicks off with ‘Porgy and Bess’
Thanks to his boundless optimism, the hero of Porgy and Bess is one of opera’s most lovable characters. Porgy needs all the hope he can summon, because he often contends with the weaknesses and errors of others--especially those of his beloved Bess.
Impossible Art: CounterCurrent Festival Spreads Out over Houston
Since 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts’ CounterCurrent Festival has always been almost impossible to define.
Dallas Symphony’s Soluna Festival Thinks Big
Why does the Dallas Symphony mount its annual Soluna music-and-arts festival? Not because it wants to escape the proverbial same old thing. For an orchestra, “the ‘same old’ is fantastic,” president Kim Noltemy says. With Soluna, the group is thinking bigger.