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  Dinner at Eight: How Do You Put on a Dinner Party After the Stock Market Has Crashed?

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  The stock market has already crashed in 1929, but still a socialite has a dinner to put on. Losses of power are everywhere among the moneyed. What follows is both comic and tragic. It's the regional premiere of Dinner at Eight about to be put on by Moores Opera Center...

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  Maria de Buenos Aires Smolders in a Stunning Production at Opera in the Heights

  February 16 at 7:14 a.m.

  As far as I know, María de Buenos Aires (1968), smoldering in a stunning, exhilarating production at Opera in the Heights, may be the first and only tango operetta. Composed by the universally acknowledged “King of Tango,” Astos Piazzolla, and written by surrealist poet Horacio Ferrer, this “little opera” is...

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  María de Buenos Aires: A Tale of Passion, Seduction and the Spirit of the Tango

  February 5 at 5 a.m.

  It's not uncommon for operas to be filled with passion, betrayal and evildoers. An operetta about to be performed at Opera in the Heights — Maria de Buenos Aires — has all of that and one thing more: the tango. The 90-minute straight through story tells the tale of Maria...

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  HGO's The Pearl Fishers Offers Beautiful Music and a Look at a Star on the Rise

  January 26 at 6:28 a.m.

  If you want to experience a true star-is-born moment, live on stage, then go see Houston Grand Opera's completely satisfying production of George Bizet's The Pearl Fishers (1863), where you will discover baritone Alexander Birch Elliott as tribal chief Zurga on the seacoast of ancient Ceylon. He's the real deal...

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  Rarely Performed, The Pearl Fishers Comes to Houston, Courtesy of HGO

  January 21 at 5:30 a.m.

  In Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, the plot centers on the two best friends, Nadir and Zurga who will always be together — until the priestess Leila arrives and both fall in love with her. The rarely performed opera has some wonderful music, especially the duet between the male leads which...

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  Florencia en el Amazonas: An Opera Rich in Sound and Look at HGO

  January 19 at 7:26 a.m.

  Daniel Catán's ultra-romantic Florencia en el Amazonas (1996, in its Houston Grand Opera world premiere) is not a great opera, but it is a good one. There's wondrous beauty threaded throughout the orchestration; the swirling melodies recall another musical era – swathes from Puccini and Debussy, tinges from Korngold; and...