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  The Life-Changing Properties of Amahl and the Night Visitors

  December 9 at 5 a.m.

  A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, opera was produced on television. Not the old and musty, but avant-garde and contemporary. Impossible to believe, but in the pioneering '50s, NBC actually had a director of “new opera programming.” Famed conductor Peter Herman Adler, born in what is...

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  HGO's El Milagro del Recuerdo: A Mariachi Opera Christmas Offering

  December 6 at 6:53 a.m.

  The show curtain for Houston Grand Opera's world premiere of Javier Martinez (music) and Leonard Foglia's (libretto) El Milagro del Recuerdo (“The Miracle of Remembering”) is everything you'd want for a prelude. Depicting a Mexican folk pastorela (the Nativity pageant), it's painted in vivid, vibrant colors like a Mayan temple...

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  10 Best Bets This Weekend: Dickens on The Strand, y El Milagro del Recuerdo

  December 5 at 4 a.m.

  Funny and festive, blissful and sweet, this weekend offers more than a few of our favorite things. There's a mariachi opera, comedy on stage, Latin-inspired music, a marathon monologue from Jay Leno, a gingerbread build-off (in space!), a homecoming of sorts over at the Houston Ballet, and a return to...

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  A Young Star Talks About His Introduction to Opera in Amahl and the Night Visitors

  December 2 at 4 a.m.

  Amahl is a young disabled boy who lives with his mother, a widow, and can only walk with the help of a crutch. The pair live in desperate poverty near Bethlehem and his mother is worried about Amahl's future. She wants him to grow up to be something other than...

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  HGO's El Milagro del Recuerdo: The Start of a Decision to Find a Better Life

  November 28 at 4 a.m.

  When it premiered in 2010, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon) became the first mariachi opera in the world, telling the story of immigrants in the families and things they have left behind as well as the new life they build in their...

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  Hosanna and Hallelujah: HGO's Saul is Special Indeed

  October 26 at 7:09 a.m.

  Full of scenic wonders, stunning music, magnificent performances, thunderous choruses, and elegant direction, Houston Grand Opera's presentation of George Frideric Handel's commanding oratorio Saul (1739) might just be legendary. This is the famed Glyndebourne Festival Opera production from 2015, directed by Barrie Kosky, with sets and costumes by Katrin Lea...