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  HGO's The Flying Dutchman Begins Friday at the Restored Wortham Center

  October 17 at 7:05 a.m.

  The Houston Grand Opera returns to the Wortham this week after more than a year's absence due to Hurricane Harvey floodwaters, opening its season with a new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Wagner's version of the story of a ship captain doomed to wander the seas on a ghost...

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  Les Misérables at the Hobby Soars Amid the Darkness

  September 26 at 7:02 a.m.

  Is there no sunlight in France? This touring production of Les Misérables, presented by Mischer Neurosciences Broadway at the Hobby, attains an epic grandeur unrivaled in musical theater since the days of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billy Rose. It remains the best musical of the '80s and just might be the...

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  La Fille du Regiment Sparkles at Opera in the Heights

  September 22 at 5:37 p.m.

  If there's a more sparkling little bauble in opera's crown than Gaetano Donizetti's 1843 powder puff operetta La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) I'd like to hear it. This winsome piece, bubbling away at Opera in the Heights, might be the most French opera not written by...

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  #MeToo at the Opera, the Samuel Schultz Story

  August 27 at 2 p.m.

  Former Rice University Shepherd School of Music graduate, baritone Samuel Schultz, dropped a sandbag upon international countertenor David Daniels, one of opera's most honored and distinguished tenors and a professor of music at the University of Michigan. He has accused Daniels and then boyfriend (now spouse) Scott Walker, of drugging,...

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  She's Female, She's Asian and She's Houston Grand Opera's New Principal Guest Conductor

  May 17 at 12:01 p.m.

  Patrick Summers, the artistic and music director of Houston Grand Opera was making a lot of trips to Vienna around 2014 when he came across the Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim and was entranced by her talent. Now, HGO is announcing that Kim will be their principal guest conductor starting in...

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  Placido Domingo Coming to Houston To Celebrate HGO's Return to the Wortham

  May 15 at 7:36 a.m.

  Tenor Plácido Domingo will return to Houston after to present a night in concert along with soprano Ana Maria Martinez in celebration of the Houston Grand Opera's return to its repaired Wortham Center Home and as a fund-raiser for Houston Grand Opera, post Hurricane Harvey. The concert, scheduled for September 26,...