I have a lot of memories of this work, and with an opera company at the helm, it was a refined performance. But the thing I’ll remember probably won’t be the music (Sasha Cooke, resilient hero, my hat is off to you).… Continue Reading
…is almost here! Read my notes about HGO’s annual Studio Showcase and what it tells us to expect from the season at Houstonia Magazine.
Houston Grand Opera’s 2015-2016 season starts in just one week with Tosca and Eugene Onegin, and it sounds like it’s going to begin bombastically. Read my preview at Houstonia Magazine.
What is a total work of art? Those familiar with Richard Wagner will jump in first to correct the English with the German “Gesamtkunstwerk” and describe, starry-eyed, Wagner’s vision of a totalizing performance space in which all the arts—architecture,… Continue Reading