Clara Butt

World Premiere by HGOco

September 15, 2015Sydney Boyd

I had a lovely chat with composer Gregory Spears about his new opera O Columbia, which you can read at Houstonia Magazine. His first opera–a 2009 premiere I wish I had been at–was based on Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case.” As… Continue Reading →

Houston Grand Opera Clara Butt, Gregory Spears, Houston Grand Opera, Willa Cather

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About Me

Sydney Boyd is a critic in Houston, TX. She studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in 20th-century literature in the English PhD program at Rice University, and, occasionally, returns to her origins as a violinist.