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Tonight: Opera Vista Festival Finals
Date: 3/18/2011 By Theodore Bale, artsJournalblogs
"I’ll be back on Sunday to relay news of the winner and also to describe the Beecher opera featured on Saturday’s program. Next month I’m off to Dallas for performances of Boris Godunov and Rigoletto. Later this year I’ll hear Phil Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox and Handel’s Julius Caesar in Fort Worth. Then there’s the rest of Houston Grand Opera’s season, which includes not only the world premiere of Franghiz Alizadeh’s Your Name Means the Sea (apparently the story focuses on the relationship between an American artist and an Azerbaijani singer), but also performances of Ariadne auf Naxos and The Marriage of Figaro. Really, there is no dearth of opera in the Lone Star state."
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Date: 3/18/2011 By Theodore Bale, artsJournalblogs
"I’ll be back on Sunday to relay news of the winner and also to describe the Beecher opera featured on Saturday’s program. Next month I’m off to Dallas for performances of Boris Godunov and Rigoletto. Later this year I’ll hear Phil Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox and Handel’s Julius Caesar in Fort Worth. Then there’s the rest of Houston Grand Opera’s season, which includes not only the world premiere of Franghiz Alizadeh’s Your Name Means the Sea (apparently the story focuses on the relationship between an American artist and an Azerbaijani singer), but also performances of Ariadne auf Naxos and The Marriage of Figaro. Really, there is no dearth of opera in the Lone Star state."
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