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  Tales from a Safe Distance at Opera in the Heights: An Unbridled Success

  October 26 at 4:30 a.m.

  As long as Covid-19 continues to plague us, theater must make do with restrictive safety precautions. While theater streaming has relied mostly on Zoom-style productions with individual panels stitched together, opera has flourished and been a fount of inspiration and creativity. (See Vinkensport at HGO for a primer on how...

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  Opera Tweets: Vinkensport with Houston Grand Opera

  October 26 at 4 a.m.

  In this never-ending pandemic with its restrictive social distancing edicts, there is hope. Who would have thought that the most promising spot would be the opera house? I turn your attention and your clicks to Houston Grand Opera's digital production, in association with Austin Opera, of composer David T. Little...

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  HGO Has Fun With a Comic Opera Based on Vinkensport. Say What?

  October 14 at 4 a.m.

  Hear the word "Belgian" and where does your mind go to? Belgian ale? Hercule Poirot? Belgian horses? Belgian chocolate? How about the Belgian sport of professional finch calling? No really, there is such a thing. And it provides the basis for Houston Grand Opera's next virtual venture: Vinkensport, or The...

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  Reginald Smith Presents an Online Concert for HGO Showcasing Black Composers

  October 6 at 4 a.m.

  When he put together his concert program for the second installment of the Houston Grand Opera's recital series, American baritone Reginald Smith knew he wanted something that would convey yearning, a stretch for something more and in the end, hope. He also was determined to highlight Black composers. So beginning...

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  Perryn Leech on How HGO Plans to Pivot to Outlast the Plague

  September 21 at 4 a.m.

  Houston Grand Opera is transforming from a company that put immense effort into its planning process, determining its seasons five years in advance or more and engaging performers years before they would ever take the stage. Now, as Managing Director Perryn Leech puts it, they are all into pivoting. Pivoting...

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  Soprano Tamara Wilson on What It's Like to Sing Again With HGO

  September 17 at 4 a.m.

  When soprano Tamara Wilson was done rehearsing for her concert recital at the Wortham Center's Cullen Theater, she went home and cried. "On rehearsal day we rehearsed and went through everything and then I drove home and just kind of had an emotional moment and kind of cried because I hadn’t...