Houston Matters Houston Grand Opera brings back ‘West Side Story’ to kick off the new year Director Francesca Zambello believes opera is the perfect medium for the message of the blockbuster ...
The composer's opera adaptation of the 1996 film of the same name and two of its stars talk about translating the movie's heavy subject matter to the stage for Houston Grand Opera.
Houston’s premier opera company, Houston Grand Opera, welcomes a new creative leader in conductor James Gaffigan, who will step into the role of music director after the departure of longtime ...
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Houston Matters Polk Street closure (Oct. 24, 2025) On Friday’s show: We get an update on controversial plans to close a section of Polk Street as a part of the expansion of the George R. Brown ...
The opera is based on a real-life tragedy, about a group of Black and brown teenagers wrongly charged and imprisoned for the brutal attack on a female jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989.
NPR 'The Abandons' is a sudsy soap opera dressed up in spurs and a cowboy hat On the surface it's a gorgeous, hardscrabble Western, awash in stark landscapes, grubby faces, bar fights and banditry ...
The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, blockbuster video games, and a sold-out San Francisco Opera production.
Houston Matters Boris Yeltsin’s 1989 Visit To A Houston Grocery Store Is Now An Opera “Yeltsin in Texas” is a mostly absurd reflection on the day the future Russian president visited a ...
Hello Houston Hello Houston (December 11, 2025) Today: Houston City Councilman Edward Pollard gives us the latest on District J, we talk with Broadway stars Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, and ...
