A family-friendly singalong is heading to TDECU Stadium.
By
Kelsy Armstrong
3/11/2021 at 6:00am
Jeanine De Bique will star as Maria in HGO s
My Favorite Thing: Songs from the Sound of Music.
As we all sadly know, the Houston Grand Opera, like many of of our beloved arts institutions, has been forced to cancel a number of events over the past year because the pandemic. That included
The Sound of Music, along with the rest of its 2020-2021 season and its Opera Ball, its largest fundraising event, for the second year in a row.Â
But on May 8, in-person performances will return in the most cheeky way . with a (socially distanced and outdoor) singalong,
Houston Grand Opera’s ‘Giving Voice’ gives platform for Black opera singers By Chris Gray, Correspondent
Appearing in Houston Grand Opera’s production of “The Pearl Fishers” in early 2019, Lawrence Brownlee looked around him and experienced something of a revelation.
“The cast was so beautifully diverse, and I just thought, ‘Wow, this is great,’ recalls the Ohio-born singer. “Houston Grand Opera has a longstanding tradition of doing color-blind casting anyway, and so to see that they were continuing that idea was something that spoke to me.”
Brownlee is, simply put, one of the world’s leading operatic tenors. For HGO, he’s appeared in six productions since 2007, also including Mozart’s “The Abduction From the Seraglio” as well as Rossini’s “The Italian Girl in Algiers” and “The Barber of Seville.” Hoping to cultivate the same kind of diversity in the audience that he saw onstage, he used his connections with the company t