HARMONIA STELLARUM: A NEW STAR ON THE TEXAS EARLY MUSIC HORIZON
Mario Aschauer, Founder and Artistic Director of Houston’s newest early music ensemble Harmonia Stellarum Houston (HSH), likes to take road trips to look at organs.
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20 Years of Magic at Ars Lyrica Houston
Reflecting on a milestone 20 years at Ars Lyrica Houston, Founder and Artistic Director Matthew Dirst took a moment to look back at the beginning. “It hardly seems possible,” says Dirst. “It was a kitchen table kind of organization. It essentially grew out of a nucleus of musicians that I had put together to play programs on some local church series.”
A Season of Awakenings at DACAMERA
Houston’s DACAMERA swings back into action this fall with a program dubbed “Awakenings.” It sets up the group’s new season in more ways than just chronologically.
The Great Lone Star Way: Broadway Across Texas
One nice performing arts perk of Texas holding five of the top thirteen most populous cities in the U.S. is that we don’t have to go to New York or London to see the hottest Broadway or even a West End show.
Stepping into Joy: Performing Arts Houston’s lively 23/24 Season
Performing Arts Houston leans into joy for its recently announced 2023-2024 season.
Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season
It has long been the goal of Texas Performing Arts to help “keep Austin weird” onstage, but the 2023-24 season promises to be especially experimental.
Ars Lyrica’s Handel Delivers Musical Fireworks
No wonder Ars Lyrica Houston opted to showcase Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno for the third time since 2005.
Epic Season at Houston Grand Opera Begins with Intelligence
Houston Grand Opera’s 2023-24 season is nothing short of epic. “We are producing some of the grandest and most mature artistic works in the repertoire all in one season,” says Khori Dastoor, HGO General Director and CEO. “Verdi’s last opera, Wagner’s last opera, late Mozart—these pieces are Mount Everest, each one of them.”
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ world premiere finally arrives in The Dallas Opera’s new season
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly celebrates the power of the human spirit when it faces a cataclysm.
Wagner, Mahler, Mozart and more: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Epic New Season
The challenge is so great that no U.S. orchestra has pulled it off in recent decades: a concert-hall presentation of Richard Wagner’s four-opera epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. But the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is taking it on.
Victoria Bach Festival Promises a Wide-Ranging Lineup
The Victoria Bach Festival is heading towards the half-century mark.
Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel
Alli Villines’s grandmother prophesied at her birth that she would be a singer, a divine foretelling that has proven true.