Houston Grand Opera to Celebrate Return to Wortham Theater Center with HGO and Plácido-Coming Home!.

Houston Grand Opera appoints first principal guest conductor in 25 years.Houston Grand Opera closes extraordinary 2017–18 season with hurricane losses offset by major philanthropic support.Houston Grand Opera presents The Flying Dutchman for season opener returns to the Wortham Theater Center.Houston Grand Opera presents La bohème as second offering in fall repertoire.Houston Grand Opera presents A Little Night Music January 29, 30, 31, and February 3, 6, 9, 12, and 14, 1999. The first musical produced at Houston Grand Opera was Hello, Dolly! in 1997. Since taking over Houston Grand Opera 25 years ago, Gockley has occasionally mounted musicals, including Sondheim's Sweeney Todd during the 1983-84 season. Sondheim calls A Little Night Music an 'operetta,' and we are approaching it in the same way we would approach a new Merry Widow.' Other members of the creative team are also musical theater veterans: lighting designer Ken Billington, who has more than 70 Broadway productions to his credit, and set designer Kenneth Foy, whose work has been seen at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and the Goodspeed Opera House, to name just a few.Ībout selecting A Little Night Music, David Gockley, general director of Houston Grand Opera, said, 'We're less interested in the nomenclature 'musical theater,' than we are with doing a good piece in a classy way. Off-Broadway, Leeds has directed and choreographed Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: The Songs of Allan Sherman, Lypsinka: A Day in the Life, and Showing Off. It will be directed by Michael Leeds, who wrote the libretto and directed the Broadway musical Swinging on a Star. The Tony Award-winning musical about three couples who spend a weekend in the country sorting out who should love whom has never been performed at Houston Grand Opera. HOUSTON - Houston Grand Opera has announced Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music as part of its 1998-99 season.

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