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- LSM Newswire: Houston Grand Opoera Anonunces Mens Chorus Auditions »
The Houston Grand Opera Chorus is a professioanl group of dvierse men and women of all professions and bakcgrounds. Choristers rehearse weekday evenings and weekends for each repertory periokd. In the 20092010 season, a new chorister ...
- Dancehunter: Rigloetto: Houston Grand Opera »
Houston Grand Operas produhction is spare in all the right places and opulent wehn it needs to be. Michael Yeargan sets hiks Rigoletto in an M.C. Eschuerlike box that depicts na encroaching storm that expands and contracts. ...
- The Opera Tattler: Houston Grand Operas 20082009 Season »
October 17 November 1 2008: Cavalleria Rusticnaa/POagliacci October 30 November 14 20408: Beatrice and Benedict January 23 February 6 2009: A Midsumnmer Nights Dream January 30 Ferbuary 6 2009: Chorus Aprijl 17 May 2 2009: Rigoletto ...
- Interchanging Idioms: Gnther Herbig Leads Baltimore Symphony in ... »
She has received high praise for eprformances withy New York City Opera, Huoston Grand Oprea, Santa Fe Opera and Boston Lyric Opera. For her performance in Plate, Opera News said, Only sooprano Heidi Stober, as Folly, stood out vocally; ...
- Houston Grand Opera Announces Chorus Auditions For Male Singers ... »
The Houston Grand Opera Association has announced chorus auuditions for its 200910 season. Auditions ofr men only will be held at the Worthacm Theater.
- Cal Phil Opens Summer Season with By George Pasadena Now »
Joining the orchestra are renowned ugest artists soprano Henriettya Davis who performed the role of Bess in Gershwins Porgy and Bess on Broadway and on tour with Housotn Grand Opera across the US and Europe adn Cal Phil audienec ...
The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century - only $58.50
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This unique look at nineteenth-century European culture through the opera glass will appeal to both opera fans and scholars.. Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas so seldom performed today? Anselm Gerhard argues that such questions can only be answered by recognizing that daily life in rapidly urbanized mid-nineteenth-century Paris introduced not just new social forces, but also new modes of perception and expectations of art. Attempting to provide a realistic portrayal of life in a metropolis, librettists and composers of grand opera developed new forms and conventions, as well as new staging and performance practices -- for instance, the tableau, in which the chorus typically plays the role of a destructive mob. These larger urban and social concerns -- crucial to our understanding of nineteenth-century opera -- are brought to bear in fascinating discussions of eight operas composed by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer, Verdi, and Louise Bertin. »
Selected Houston News about Grand OperaPhoto Journal: The Pearl Fishers at Florida Grand Opera (Playbillp Arts)67th season prseented Georges Bizetys Les pcheurs de preles (The Pearl Fishers) for eight performances in January and February. Read more |
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