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Houston Grand Opera Set for 2025 Butler Studio Showcase

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Houston Grand Opera is set to present the 2025 Butler Studio Showcase. The event, set for Sept. 12, 2025, at 7 p.m., will feature selections from such operas as “Don Giovanni,” “Don Carlo,” “Fidelio,” “Cavalleria rusticana,” “The Rake’s Progress,” “Eugene Onegin,” “Die tote Stadt,” and “La traviata.” The performers include Soprano Alissa Goretsky, third-place winner at HGO’s 2024 Concert of {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Names New Chairperson of the Board of Directors

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Houston Grand Opera has named Astley Blair to the position of Chairperson of the Board of Directors. He started his tenure on August 1, 2025, and it runs through August 1, 2027. Blair has been a subscriber of the company for more than two decades and joined the Board of Directors in 2004. Blair chaired the Audit Committee and also {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Announces New Partnership with London Symphony Orchestra to Release New Recordings

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(Credit: Katy Anderson) Houston Grand Opera has announced a new partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), uniting the newly launched Houston Grand Opera label with pioneering label LSO Live. The partnership, which marks LSO Live’s first-ever collaboration with a U.S. opera company, represents an opportunity for HGO to share American operatic works with a broad international audience. In a {…}

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Corinne Winters, Ryan McKinny, Angel Blue, Sasha Cooke, Arturo Chacón-Cruz Headline Houston Grand Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2025-26 season, titled “The Light We Hold.” The season opens with “Porgy and Bess” in a production by Francesca Zambello and starring Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, Blake Denson, and Demetrious Sampson Jr.  James Gaffigan conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 24 – Nov. 15, 2025 Corinne Winters headlines “Il Trittico,” taking on roles in each {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Reveals 2025-26 Studio Artists

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Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2025-26 Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio Artists. Among the first-year artists are tenor Luka Tsevelidze, who secured second place at HGO’s 2025 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, and baritone Geonho Lee, who claimed both first place and the Audience Choice award. Pianist and coach Tzu Kuang Tan also joins the {…}

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Houston Grand Opera to World Premiere Joel Thompson’s ‘A Voice Within’

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Houston Grand Opera has announced that it will present the world premiere of Joel Thompson’s “A Voice Within” on June 17, 2025, at the Emancipation Park Conservancy Cultural Center. The song cycle will feature words by librettist and poet Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton inspired by the lives of residents of Houston’s Third Ward. The showcase will be presented in collaboration with {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘West Side Story’

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The Houston Grand Opera has announced a cast change for its Feb. 5 performance of “West Side Story.” The company noted that soprano Teresa Castillo will be stepping in to replace an indisposed colleague and perform the role of Maria in Bernstein’s West Side Story.” It will mark her company debut. Castillo has performed at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Teams Up with Novum Energy for New Diversity Initiative

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(Photo credit: Maritere Rice) Diversity initiatives might be coming to an end in the United States’ Federal government and discrimination seems to be okay again, per the U.S. President’s latest decrees, but several opera companies are moving forward with progress regardless. The latest example comes from the Houston Grand Opera which announced on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, that it was {…}

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Geonho Lee Crowned Victor of the Houston Grand Opera’s 2025 Concert of Arias

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(Photo credit: Michael Bishop) Geonho Lee has been crowned the winner of the Houston Grand Opera’s 2025 Concert of Arias. The South Korean baritone, a current student at thhe University of Music and Theatre Munich, took home the $25,000 cash prize during the final event of the 37th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers on Jan. 17, 2025. Lee {…}