![]() ![]() Houston Grand Opera’s Aida is on stage now at The Wortham Theater Center. Come and try it for $12.50, What’s the worst that can happen?” Houston Grand Opera: The Sound of Music tickets at Brown Theater at Wortham Center 500 Texas Ave are available here for a more than fair several even inexpensive reasonable. That’s the same price as going to the movies. An opera that was belittled in 1987 by major New York critics - as a CNN Opera of no lasting merit when Houston Grand Opera premiered it - has clearly remained relevant. “We have a discount ticket program that allows anyone to come to the opera for $12.50. In addition to outreach and education, Houston Grand’s Nexus Initiative brings new opera-goers discounted tickets. Workshops, lectures, student performances, vocal training programs, and opera camps are tools used to make classical music and opera accessible to everyone. Founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and three local Houstonians, the company is resident at the Wortham Theater Center. HGO also helps to bring music to a variety of ethnic communities in Houston in their native tongues. ![]() “(It will be) the first ring cycle at Houston Grand Opera.” “I think we all have to say that it is going to be the ring cycle starting with Das Rheingold- that’s what we’re really looking forward to.” Patrons, Jesse Weir and Roberto Ayala, talk about what they are most looking forward to this season. The Houston Grand Opera season runs from October18, 2013 through May 10, 2014. The key is getting a balance to a season.” So, it’s a very intimate opera of the largest scale possible. “It’s a perfect season opener because it’s grand opera on a huge scale, but also wonderfully wonderful composition that allows this beautiful music to flow out in the smaller scenes. This is Houston Grand Opera Managing Director, Perryn Leech. The season opens with Giuseppe Verdi’s sweeping and exotic epic, Aida, starring Russian opera star Liudmyla Monastyrska. Houston Grand Opera is bringing the Houston community a full season of music with fundamental classics, a national and international debut, and the first opera in Richard Wagner’s acclaimed ring cycle, Das Rheingold.
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