Houston Grand Opera to Live Stream ‘Of Mice and Men’
By David Salazar(Image courtesy of HGO)
Houston Grand Opera is set to livestream its new production of Carlisle Floyd’s “Of Mice and Men” on March 15, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. CT via its YouTube and Facebook channels.
The matinee performance at the Wortham Theater Center’s Cullen Theater will feature a cast drawn entirely from the company’s Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio. Bass-baritone Sam Dhobhany sings George, with tenor Demetrious Sampson, Jr. as Lennie, soprano Alissa Goretsky as Curley’s Wife, tenor Shawn Roth as Curley, bass Ziniu Zhao as Candy, baritone Geonho Lee as Slim, tenor Michael McDermott as Carlson, and tenor Luka Tsevelidze as Ballad Singer.
Kristine McIntyre directs, with Benjamin Manis conducting.
The performance has added resonance since Floyd co-founded the Butler Studio with then-General Director David Gockley in 1977 and maintained a close relationship with Houston Grand Opera until his passing in 2021. Five of his operas received their world premieres in Houston.
McIntyre’s production, inspired by the photography of Dorothea Lange, is co-produced with Des Moines Metro Opera, Florida State University, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City. The opera runs two hours and 20 minutes with one intermission and is sung in English, with English subtitles available for the livestream.
The stream is free to watch. The opera has performances on March 13 at 7 p.m. and March 15 at 2:30 p.m.
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