AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Texas gold: a giant milestone for the Lone Star State: the fiftieth-anniversary season of the pioneering Houston Grand Opera.(Company Profile)
Nothing keeps Houston down: not heat or hurricanes, not the freeways or mosquitoes the size of roasting hens. This is a city where people hop out of bed wondering what limits they'll push today, whether drilling deep into the earth or vaulting into space. Folks don't dwell on the past here: rare is the building that survives more than a few decades, while new downtowns spring up regularly.
It may seem one of the strangest places on earth for an opera company to flourish--especially for fifty years. Houston shares the endemic Texan uneasiness toward anything foreign, intellectual or arty, and as for music, gee-tars have always taken precedence over violins. When I ...
- First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera's Opera to Go Join Forces to Improve...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 17, 2005 700+ words
...First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera will once again join forces...is a collaboration between Houston Grand Opera and Houston Community College...First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera's Opera to Go! WHAT: Collaborative...
- Houston Grand Opera Engages Panasonic HDTV Truck to Record "Little Women"...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 15, 2000 700+ words
...s opera "Little Women" at Houston Grand Opera (Houston, TX), one of the...opera companies, this week. Houston Grand Opera is reviving Mr. Adamo's...classic novel is the first of Houston Grand Opera's 24 world premiere operas...
- First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera's Opera to Go! Join Forces to...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 7, 2004 700+ words
...First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera join forces to give children...is a collaboration between Houston Grand Opera and Houston Community College...First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera's Opera to Go! WHAT: Collaborative...
- Houston Grand Opera.(HOUSTON)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Albright, William September 1, 2005 700+ words
...Canadian opera singers. The last two productions of Houston Grand Opera's 50th-anniversary season featured three Canadians...OMITTED] The other principals were members of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins was a rewardingly...
- Giulio Cesare: Matthew White (Nireno) in the Houston Grand Opera...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Albright, William March 22, 2004 700+ words
...behind James Robinson's jolly co-production for Houston Grand Opera, Opera Colorado, and Utah Opera, seen in Wortham...HGO music director Patrick Summers conducted the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra buoyantly, but couldn't resist massaging...
- Houston hoopla.(Parties)(Houston Ballet Company and Houston Grand Opera...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country October 1, 2003 700+ words
THE STAGE Both the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera held their annual balls at the city's Wortham Theater...OMITTED] Karen and Mel Payne [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HOUSTON GRAND OPENING Honorees Bob and Janice McNair [ILLUSTRATION...
- Houston Grand Opera
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Houston Grand Opera. Opera company in Texas, USA, founded 1955 by Walter Herbert, who was succeeded as gen. man. in 1972 by David Gockley. Since...
- Houston Grand Opera Unveils Enchanting New Production of Hansel and Gretel by...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 14, 2006 700+ words
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) stages a spectacular new production of Humperdinck's beloved fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel featuring artists from...
