Current Season

Music by Daniel Catán | Libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain

Conductor: Stephanie Rhodes Russell | Stage Director: JJ Hudson

Performance Dates: October 30, November 1, 6, 8

Tickets for 10/30 at 7:30 p.m.   TICKETS FOR 11/1 AT 3:00 P.M.   TICKETS FOR 11/6 AT 7:30 P.M.   TICKETS FOR 11/8 AT 3:00 P.M.

An old steamboat winds its way along the mysterious – and at times, magical – Amazon River en route to Manaus, Brazil.  The excited passengers aboard the El Dorado are traveling to witness the return of internationally renowned soprano Florencia Grimaldi to her native South America after twenty years’ absence.  The diva will reopen the newly renovated opera house in Manaus with a grand performance.  For one mysterious passenger, however, the trip is also an opportunity to rediscover her true self, and to find the man who inspired her art so long ago.  Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas premiered in 1996 at the Houston Grand Opera.  Its Spanish-language libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain was inspired by the magical-realism style of her mentor, Gabriel García Márquez.

Sung in Spanish with English Supertitles

 

Music by Vincenzo Bellini | Libretto by Felice Romani

Conductor: Michelle Rofrano | Stage Director: JJ Hudson

Performance Dates: February 26, 28, March 4, 5

TICKETS FOR 2/26 AT 7:30 P.M.   TICKETS FOR 2/28 AT 3:00 P.M.   TICKETS FOR 3/4 AT 7:30 P.M.   TICKETS FOR 3/5 AT 7:30 P.M.

The Renaissance-era tale of star-crossed lovers that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet found a new voice in Vincenzo Bellini’s 1830 bel canto masterpiece, The Capulets and the Montagues.  Set against the ominous drumbeats of impending battle, two lovers from warring Veronese families strive to be united in life, and if necessary – in death.  With its soaring melodies, virtuosic ensembles, and sparkling orchestration, Bellini’s adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet tale thrills with its portrayal of longing, jealousy, vengeance, and grief.

Sung in Italian with English Supertitles

 

Music by Aaron Copland | Libretto by Horance Everett

Conductor: Sharon Bjorndal Lavery | Stage Director: Kihwa Nam

Performance Dates: April 16, 18

TICKETS FOR 4/16 AT 7:30 P.M.   TICKETS FOR 4/18 AT 3:00 P.M.   

The 1930s American Midwest is the canvas for Aaron Copland’s portrait of a young woman seeking connection and broader horizons.  It’s the eve of high-school graduation for Laurie Moss, the first person in her family to finish school.  As her loving family celebrates her accomplishment, Laurie solemnly realizes that she – at only eighteen – has achieved her life’s singular goal.  In recent months, and in ways that she can’t quite explain, the distant horizon surrounding her family’s farm has awakened an undefined yearning.  Her vague desire is kindled by the sudden appearance of two strangers from beyond that line where the earth and sky meet.