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HGO’s Norma

May 1, 2018Sydney Boyd

It was a good night for women everywhere. Read my review at Houstonia Magazine.

Houston Grand Opera Houston Grand Opera, Jamie Barton, Liudmyla Monastyrska

HGO’s West Side Story

April 23, 2018Sydney Boyd

Some fantastic dancing and singing on Friday night at Houston Grand Opera, though not often at the same time. Read my review at Houstonia Magazine.

Houston Grand Opera Houston Grand Opera, Timothy Myers, West Side Story

Clutter clutter, mutter mutter

January 29, 2018Sydney Boyd

There were so many multi-colored wig-and-bald clown caps on stage Friday that I starting hearing a rhyme from my childhood: One cap, two cap, green cap, blue cap—from top to bottom Houston Grand Opera’s latest performance of Barber of Seville… Continue Reading →

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HGO’s Elektra

January 22, 2018Sydney Boyd

Nothing comes of pining for what could have been, but that’s where I found myself on Friday night at Houston Grand Opera’s Elektra. With reigning soprano Christine Goerke in the title role, I couldn’t help myself. Read my review at Houstonia.

Houston Grand Opera Christine Goerke, Elektra, Houston Grand Opera

HGO’s The House Without a Christmas Tree

December 1, 2017Sydney Boyd

A world premiere (music by Ricky Ian Gordon, libretto by Royce Vavrek), this is the closest HGO has gotten to getting the Christmas cheer right. Read my review at Houstonia.

Houston Grand Opera Ricky Ian Gordon, Royce Vavrek

HGO’s Julius Caesar

October 30, 2017Sydney Boyd

A beautiful opera, no doubt about it. And it fared much better in the cavernous George R. Brown Convention Center than last week’s La Traviata. Read my review at Houstonia.

Houston Grand Opera Handel, Heidi Stober, Houston Grand Opera

Opera after a Hurricane

October 23, 2017Sydney Boyd

How do you review an opera after a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey wipes out its hall for a season? It’s not anything I ever learned in school. At Houston Grand Opera’s season opening night of La Traviata on Friday, I… Continue Reading →

Houston Grand Opera Albina Shagimuratova, Houston Grand Opera, Hurricane Harvey

Mozart’s Seraglio; Frank’s Conquest

May 2, 2017Sydney Boyd

Two pieces at Houstonia Magazine this week: the first, a review of Houston Grand Opera’s Abduction from the Seraglio in which Ryan Speedo Green stole the show, and the second, an interview with Gabriela Lena Frank about the world premiere of… Continue Reading →

Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony Gabriela Lena Frank, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony, Ryan Speedo Green

Twilight in Houston

April 24, 2017Sydney Boyd

It’s finally here, the end of Houston Grand Opera’s epic Ring Cycle. Looking back, I have to say I’ve loved every minute of it–the wild fantasy of the production, the singers (Christine Goerke!), the fire and ice that met every… Continue Reading →

Houston Grand Opera Ring Cycle, Wagner

Houston World Premiere

February 28, 2017Sydney Boyd

The Rothko Chapel meets chamber opera: A collaboration of librettists Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed and composer Laura Kaminsky, Some Light Emerges takes its premise from one of my favorite places. Read my interview with Campbell at Houstonia Magazine. It premieres March 16.

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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.

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