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Streaming for Songs For Murdered Sisters—a moving song cycle raising awareness of domestic violence—has been extended through 4/30 on @MarqueeArtsTV!
Read more about the making of this production here: theguardian.com/books/2021/mar…
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"Not only is it fun as a performer to get to stretch all of the limits of your voice. [...] It's just really fun to find every aspect that your voice can do." Read more about how Jack Swanson lets his range shine in his Live from The Cullen recital.
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The fourth installment of @HouGrandOpera's 5-part series "Religare: Music" is TONIGHT at 6pm CST! Tonight's theme: Lyrics.
This series continues for every Tuesday in March, and there's only one left! Coming up: Silence
Learn more and register here: houstongrandopera.org/community-and-…
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@PineyElem so excited to have the opportunity to bring @HouGrandOpera phenomenal Storybook Opera back to our K-2 classes. This is one of our favorite arts experiences! Thank you @artsconnecthtx and HGO education outreach!
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Help us give a warm, Texas-sized welcome to our incoming 2021-22 HGO Studio Artists! After an international search, we are proud to welcome these artists to the HGO family.
Learn more about these talented young artists here: bit.ly/3tOMotE
Suite Española: Explorando Iberia is a personal passion project from HGO Artistic Advisor @anamariasoprano that she hopes will highlight the beauty of Spanish culture and leave audiences feeling inspired. Premiering this Friday at 7:30 p.m. for free on @MarqueeArtsTV.
Work hard, play hard. 😎 HGO Artistic Advisor@anamariasopranoo has been hard at work curating a beautiful concert for you all that will celebrate the culture of Spain. Suite Española: Explorando Iberia is coming to@MarqueeArtsTVV on 3/26.E
📢 Save the date: On Friday, March 26, Houston Grand Opera will present the digital premiere of Suite Española: Explorando Iberia🎼, created by HGO Artistic Advisor Ana María Martíne@spaincultureusu@HouGrandOperarrC
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Be immersed in the culture of Spain with Suite Española: Explorando Iberia. 🇪🇸 💃 This concert coming @MarqueeArtsTVsTV on 3/26 highlights Spanish art forms such as zarzuela and flamenco in a celebration of this beautiful countrMXM
We are super excited about today's LIVE ONLINE bilingual presentation of The Armadillo's Dream with artists Alejandro Magallón and Geoffrey Peterson! Don't forget to join us at 11AM: youtu.be/S9FvHcuITyI @HouGrandOpera #ArmadillosDream
Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera Congratulations to HGO Studio alum @RyanMcKinny and our dear friend Sasha Cooke on winning a Grammy in the best classical compendium category for their recording of @mtilsonthomas' “From the Diary of Anne Frank and Meditations on Rilke.” 🎉
🎵Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens 🎵*clears throat* SORRY we're just really excited that tickets for the My Favorite Things: Songs From The Sound of Music singalong are now on sale! Can't wait to hear your beautiful voices on 5/8. ❤️
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The recording of Suite Española: Explorando Iberia was a success. ✅ 🎥 Check out this backstage sneak peek of some of the stunning Flamenco dancing featured in this celebration of Spain. �Kx
Suite Española: Explorando Iberia—created by world-renowned Soprano and HGO Artistic Advisor, Ana María Martínez— celebrates the beautiful culture of Spain through song and dance. Available on @MarqueeArtsTV 3/26.
Congratulations to HGO Studio alum @EricOwensSinger, @denycegraves, and Reginald Smith Jr., as well as the rest of the cast and crew of @MetOpera's Porgy and Bess on winning Best Opera Recording at the Grammy's!
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Songs For Murdered Sisters is a moving song cycle from @barihopkins, Jake Heggie, and @MargaretAtwood created to raise awareness of domestic violence. This piece is still available to watch for free on @MarqueeArtsTV through 3/21.
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Jack Swanson has artfully crafted an emotionally relevant recital for you all to enjoy tonight at 7:30 p.m. CST. Check out what Jack had to say about his song selection and what he hopes audiences get out of this performance.
This is maybe my favorite recital photo ever twitter.com/HouGrandOpera/…
Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera The look of the season brought to you by Jack Swanson. Watch Jack's Live from The Cullen performance this Friday at 7:30 p.m. CST on @MarqueeArtsTV—and don't forget to tune in to the pre-show livestream at 7 p.m. on our Facebook and YouTube for the inside scoop.
As a benefit of being a loyal member of the HGO family, subscribers and donors get early ticket access starting today at 12 p.m. CST—check your email for your pre-sale code. Tickets for the general public will be available starting 3/17. twitter.com/HouGrandOpera/…
My Favorite Things: Songs From The Sound of Music is a socially distanced singalong event for the whole family and our first in person performance in over a year! #SoundofMusic
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Start getting your vocal cords warmed up because we're doing a singalong! 🎵 🎹 Join us at th@UHoustonon stadium for My Favorite Things: Songs From The Sound of Music on May 8th. Tickets available to the public starting March 17th.#soundofmusici#singalongnPP
Teens! Start off your Spring Break next week with the Teen Opera Club of Texas. Ryan Speedo Green is in the house! More info & Registration here: texasoperaalliance.org/teen-opera-clu… @AustinOpera @FortWorthOpera @TheOperaSA @HouGrandOpera @TheDallasOpera #meetopera
Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera Songs From Sorrow is a touching and vulnerable essay written by @barihopkins about his sister's murder and the creation of Songs For Murdered Sisters to raise awareness of the gender-based violence epidemic.
Read here: bit.ly/2O8Hed5
Enjoy a sneak peak of Jack Swanson's upcoming recital! You can enjoy the rest of this beautiful performance on 3/12 at 7:30 p.m. CST on @MarqueeArtsTV.
Houston is alive with The Sound of Music! 🎵 We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting My Favorite Things: Songs from the Sound of Music as a socially distanced singalong at@UHoustonn on May 8th!
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Happy International Women's Day! 💪 Today and everyday we celebrate strong female leads and the amazing women who make this artform possible—from performers to costume designers to directors, we couldn't do it without you.E
The final song of Songs For Murdered Sisters brings resolve after a long journey of grief. "A simple tune brings comfort as the Wanderer realizes that when as he breathes and sings, his sister is with him. He hums. The air vibrates. The eternal ohm." —Jake Heggie, Composer
Happy International Women's Day!
Join @HouGrandOpera, @mnopera & @guerillaopera in celebrating Women’s History Month with a FREE, three-day creative aging workshop feat. special guest, composer Faye Chiao. March 24-26, 10:30am-12pm CST.
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/wise-women-i…
Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera Happy to perform once again for @HouGrandOpera. Looking forward to being a part of #Religare_Music : on Tuesday, March 9th at 6pm CST.
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Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera "Should he avenge her by killing the man who killed her? The music rages until he wonders if perhaps the ghost of his sister would ask for something different: “Would you instead forgive?” The music begins to blossom with new warmth and beauty." —Jake Heggie, Composer 2/2
Songs For Murdered Sisters tackles the questions and thoughts of fury and frustration that come with grief in the second to last song of the cycle—Rage. "The lowest strings of the piano growl as the Wanderer’s own anger and rage grows. Why couldn’t he have saved his sister?" 1/2
"The chords in the piano echo this timeless repetition and the sorrow that surrounds it." —Jake Heggie, Composer
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Songs For Murdered Sisters explores a pattern of toxic masculinity and domestic violence with the sixth song of the cycle—Lost. "The Wanderer contemplates the countless women murdered by angry, jealous, fearful men over thousands of years. Countless lives - countless tears." 1/2
The recording of Songs For Murdered Sisters is now available on all major platforms! Be sure to show your support for this piece that is raising awareness of domestic violence. Don't forget you can also still stream the video release on @MarqueeArtsTV through 3/21!
Here's our @culturemap roundup of all the great streaming theater (and @HouGrandOpera) to see in March, including @alleytheatre, @StagesHouston, @Dixielongate's back, plus @SPAHouston brings an outdoor Heist to downtown. houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/03-0…
Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera "The music evokes bird song as it sparkles, dips and soars, echoing the long emotional quest." —Jake Heggie, Composer (2/2)
As the fifth song in the cycle, Bird Song further explores the complex emotional journey caused by loss in Songs For Murdered Sisters.
"Wondering where his sister’s soul has flown to, the Wanderer looks to birds in the sky in search of answers. Which bird would she be?" (1/2)
"The language of the eight poems is spare, direct and painful, the words of the bereaved brother making his way through different aspects and stages of his grief."
Songs For Murdered Sisters is still streaming for free on @marquee TV through 3/21.
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"They are young, with no inkling of what the future will bring. But, then she tells him she has to go and truth once again comes crashing in on him." —Jake Heggie, Composer (2/2)
The fourth song of Songs For Murdered Sisters—Dream— longs for a simpler, happier time, only to be interrupted by an unfortunate reality. "A melancholy, distant tune is suspended in a cloud of delicate harmonies as the Wanderer dreams about his sister." (1/2)
The talented Jack Swanson has put together a lovely recital featuring a variety of fantastic composers that tackles a theme of longing in a world where many of us are feeling exactly that. Streaming for free on @MarqueeArtsTV starting March 12th.
"He pictures how innocently she would have opened the door, only to be met with terrifying, red anger." —Jake Heggie, Composer (2/2) #songsformurderedsisters
Anger—the third song of Songs For Murdered Sisters—explores the emotion of the murderer who killed @barihopkins' sister, Nathalie. "Stark, timeless, dark chords grow louder as the Wanderer imagines the angry man who murdered his sister – the man she had tried to love." (1/2)
.@barihopkins sat down with @HoustonPress to discuss the genesis of Songs for Murdered Sisters, domestic violence, and grief, as well as the filming process and his experience working with @MargaretAtwood and #JakeHeggie.
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The music swirls and sparkles with imagination and wit, but is ultimately haunted and pulled back to reality." —Jake Heggie, Composer (2/2)
Enchantment—the second song of Songs For Murdered Sisters—explores coming to terms with denial after loss. "Trying to make sense of his sister’s murder, the Wanderer imagines fairytales and fables that could explain her absence: something magical and mysterious..." (1/2)
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"I urge you to experience it for yourself."
Out of tragedy, @barihopkins creates something artful: Patrick Dillon review the new song cycle by Jake Heggie and @MargaretAtwood:
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Retweeted by Houston Grand Opera Texas Opera Alliance (TOA) announced today that acclaimed bass-baritone @RyanSpeedoGreen will be its 1st Artist in Residence, beginning March 12. Read the news at @FortWorthOpera's Insider Blog!
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