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  Ars Lyrica Delivers a Magnificent Production of Handel's Agrippina

  November 17 at 11:30 a.m.

  Agrippina, where have you been all my life? And Ars Lyrica? I think I love you. Ars Lyrica, Houston's preeminent early music ensemble, under the sparkling direction of Matthew Dirst, has staged an utterly magnificent production of George Frideric Handel's first international smash hit: his baroque opera seria Agrippina (1709)...

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  Opera in the Heights' Production of Cosi fan tutte is Filled With Bounce, Charm and Great Music

  November 10 at 12:20 p.m.

  Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri was never Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's scheming nemesis (sorry, Peter Shaffer with your delightfully wicked Amadeus) so much as he was Mozart's unwitting irritant. He certainly never tried very hard to help out the genius, but he actually did do one thing which was sublimely right...

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  5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Spinal Tap, CineSpace and a Battleship

  November 9 at 4 a.m.

  Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. This weekend in Houston we've got a vintage fashion show and a throwback screening of the world’s greatest mockumentary. For the new, Opera in the Heights has a completely different concept from when it last presented Mozart's most controversial work. More than 250 filmmakers...

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  This La Boheme Slows When It Should Race, But Pureum Jo Shines as Musetta

  November 4 at 7:19 a.m.

  The Parisian cold water garret that the four young Bohemians share in Giacomo Puccini's evergreen opera La Bohème, snoozing through its run at Houston Grand Opera, isn't the only thing without heat. The entire production is lukewarm, glacially paced, and lacks ardor, not the qualities one wants in any Puccini...

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  Puccini's Genius Shines in La boheme Returning to the Wortham With Passion to Spare

  October 23 at 6:29 a.m.

  An important point not to overlook in Puccini's La bohème, the four-act story of a group of starving artists in Paris, according to Italian tenor Ivan Magrì is that these young people have decided to live in poverty, seeing it as part and parcel of the artistic experience. Of course that same...

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  HGO's The Flying Dutchman Shows Off Its Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus

  October 20 at 8 a.m.

  How grand it is to have Houston Grand Opera back where it belongs – in its own home, that glorious aural cocoon that is the Wortham Theater. It's been an entire year since Hurricane Harvey devastated the downtown theater, and while we applaud HGO's pluck and ingenuity in carving out...