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Giuseppe Verdi

  • Culture

    April 19, 2012

    Indecent Proposal

    Theatre Southwest mounts a ripping good show with Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden.

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    Don Carlos

    Theatre Southwest mounts a ripping good show with Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden.

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2012

    Il Trovatore

    Theatre Southwest mounts a ripping good show with Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Houston Grand Opera's La Traviata Never Catches Fire

    The setup: Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece about life and love in the demimonde of 19th-century Paris, while tastefully sung in HGO's production, never fires up the necessary abandon nor the great passion needed to set this work aflame. We start dry-eyed, we stay that way. The execution: B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Anna Bolena at Opera in the Heights: Spellbinding

    The setup: They're not called soap operas for nothing. For decades these overripe melodramas may have been steady fare on daytime TV, but they can definitely trace their parentage back to the Romantic opera houses of Italy, with the bel canto ("beautiful singing") works of Bellini, Donizetti and Ro ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 3, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviws: Candida, Don Carlo, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Year of Magical Thinking

    The setup: They're not called soap operas for nothing. For decades these overripe melodramas may have been steady fare on daytime TV, but they can definitely trace their parentage back to the Romantic opera houses of Italy, with the bel canto ("beautiful singing") works of Bellini, Donizetti and Ro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2011

    Don Carlos

    The setup: They're not called soap operas for nothing. For decades these overripe melodramas may have been steady fare on daytime TV, but they can definitely trace their parentage back to the Romantic opera houses of Italy, with the bel canto ("beautiful singing") works of Bellini, Donizetti and Ro ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 4, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Un ballo in maschera, A Picasso, Thunder Rock

    The setup: They're not called soap operas for nothing. For decades these overripe melodramas may have been steady fare on daytime TV, but they can definitely trace their parentage back to the Romantic opera houses of Italy, with the bel canto ("beautiful singing") works of Bellini, Donizetti and Ro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Un ballo in maschera

    Opera in the Heights goes to Sweden with Giuseppe Verdi

  • Culture

    April 30, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Rigoletto, The Seven Year Itch

    Opera in the Heights goes to Sweden with Giuseppe Verdi

  • Culture

    April 23, 2009
  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Rigoletto

    Tragedy never sounded so sweet

  • Culture

    February 5, 2009
  • Culture

    October 25, 2007

    Sylvia, A Masked Ball

    Despite some leg humping, A. R. Gurney's fable gets best in show

  • Culture

    April 19, 2007

    Aïda

    If Aïda's grand opera, where's the grand?

  • Culture

    October 26, 2006

    Simon's Star

    Dmitri Hvorostovsky is reason enough to see HGO's season opener

  • Culture

    September 28, 2006
  • Culture

    February 3, 2005

    Some Serious Opera

    Idomeneo may be dry at times, but Mozart is still a genius

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2005

    Hay Ya

    Texas dance's grande dame steps into DiverseWorks

  • Culture

    June 12, 2003

    Nile Dazzler

    Aida gets an assist from the glitz of Disney

  • Culture

    April 24, 2003

    True Love Too Late

    Renée Fleming and HGO prove up to the challenge of La Traviata

  • Culture

    April 26, 2001

    The Personal Is Political

    HGO's Don Carlo gets to the heart of Verdi's clash between church and state

  • Culture

    May 4, 2000

    Aida Who?

    HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

  • Music

    January 13, 2000

    Playbill

    Big Mouth: Beth Hart. Also, L'Amico Fritz and Gianni Schicchi

  • Culture

    October 28, 1999

    That Verdi Magic

    HGO's elegant Aida underscores that all's pharaoh in love and war

  • Music

    May 20, 1999

    Hot-blooded

    Opera in the Heights brings Italy to Houston with Puccini's Tosca

  • Culture

    August 20, 1998

    Arias for All

    Ebony Guild excels for diverse opera fans

  • Culture

    October 23, 1997

    Scottish Modern

    HGO's Macbeth sounds great. Its look, though, is another matter.

  • Calendar

    October 16, 1997

    Press Picks

    HGO's Macbeth sounds great. Its look, though, is another matter.

  • Culture

    May 4, 1995

    Rare Verdi

    HGO dusts off Attila for a rousing performance

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