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“Seeing life through the ROCO lens is a great place to be.” – Alecia Lawyer, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra founder, artistic director and principal oboist It’s not everywhere nor every day you come across a thriving professional orchestra still led by i…
Read MoreHouston Grand Opera’s new 2024-25 season is set to be a music and opera lover’s dream. Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Rossini’s Cinderella, Puccini’s La Bohème, Bernstein’s West Side Story, Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves and Wagner’s Tannhäuser a…
Read MoreHouston Grand Opera is ending its 2023-2024 season by taking one of the most beloved American musicals — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music — to operatic heights. Francesca Zambello, the visionary artistic director of the Washington National …
Read MoreThe emotional highs of Giselle, one of the world’s most famous and romantic ballets, are difficult to match. But husband and wife Kateryna Kukhar and Oleksandr Stoianov, principal dancers and stars of the Grand Kyiv Ballet’s tour, come with…
Read MorePianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes embodies the idea of speaking truth to power through his open-minded, unapologetically conscious approach to music. He embraces the idea of music that transcends structure and aural soundscapes to become a safe harb…
Read MoreArts nonprofit Young Texas Artists (YTA) put on an evening of down-home Texana and concert classics at its benefit gala dubbed “Bach, Beethoven & Barbecue” at Conroe’s Crighton Theatre. The three-part celebration included a dinner…
Read More“Dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang between the worlds.” – Rumi, 13th century poet Bespoke is Houston Ballet’s mixed repertory program (which runs through this Sunday, March 17), showcasing one-act contemporary ba…
Read MoreAs the Fort Worth Opera celebrates its 78th anniversary with a return to Bass Hall, its artistic director Angela Turner Wilson turns up the heat. The 2023/2024 season kicks off with “one of the most enchanting operas in the traditional repertory,” Giac…
Read MoreAlong came a wolf, who knocked at the door and said, ‘Little pig, little pig, let me come in.’ –The Big Bad Wolf in The Three Little Pigs, a 19th century children’s fable “All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” That famous …
Read More“One must not trifle with love.” – Alfred de Musset Houston Grand Opera is continuing its season with one of opera’s most lyrical and often-performed works: Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece Madame Butterfly. It is not just the magnificent music that has c…
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