Opera & Musical Theater

Posted on October 15, 2010 · Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman and three of the singers from Opera Vista perform music from a World Premiere "Bollywood" opera, The Silent Prince.

Posted on October 12, 2010 · We meet award-winning Seattle playwright, Mara Lathrop, who introduces us to her surrealistic, time-traveling drama, The Garden of Monsters, which will be presented on tonight's staged reading by Wordsmyth Theater Company.

Posted on September 24, 2010 · Singers from Opera Vista perform vocal miniatures by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem previewing the outdoor concert, Simply American Songs and Gifts, which they'll present tomorrow night in the Garden at Bayou Bend as part of this weekend's festivities celebrating the renovation of several of the rooms in Miss Ima Hogg's former home and the opening of its new Visitors' Center...

Posted on September 22, 2010 · Singers from Opera in the Heights perform live for us! Cast members Elizabeth Andrews Roberts and John Rodger perform arias and duets from Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, looking at the company's next production, which opens tomorrow night at Lambert Hall in The Heights...

Posted on September 17, 2010 · Singers from Houston's Ebony Opera perform oratorio and opera excerpts by Puccini, Saint-Saens and late 19th Century Anglo-African composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as they offer for our examination some of the musical jewels that will be part of this year's Opera Gems Concert, Church Roots and Operatic Wings, which takes place Sunday afternoon at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall...

Posted on September 14, 2010 · We find out about Main Street Theatre's season-opener, The Doctor's Dilemma, by George Bernard Shaw. Mark Adams directs, and Joel Sandel (pictured) plays a physician who must decide which of two patients will receive the only existing dose of his newly-discovered cure for tuberculosis...

Posted on September 8, 2010 · We have a live performance by soloists from Opera in the Heights, who treat us to romantic songs from Spanish and Latin-American operettas, previewing their concert, Passion: Zarzuelas and Boleros, to be presented this weekend in partnership with Talento Bilingue de Houston...

Posted on September 8, 2010 · We ring up Irish tenor, Ronan Tynan, at home on the Emerald Isle, to chat about his music and career, in anticipation of his return visit to Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House for a concert on Friday night...

Posted on September 1, 2010 · Main Street Theater Artistic Director, Rebecca Greene Udden, previews both the company's "Main-Stage" season and its first-ever "New/Now" Series of world and regional premieres of hot-off-the-press scripts by emerging playwrights...

Posted on August 30, 2010 · Maureen Patton, Executive Director of Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House, tells us about the varied line-up of world-class artists and attractions that will perform in her hall this coming season...

Posted on June 24, 2010 · Cast members from the Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival return to the KUHF studio to perform numbers from their original old-time variety show, The Radio Opera Hour, and Gian-Carlo Menotti's one-act opera, The Old Maid and the Thief. Both pieces are part of this year's Lyric Theater Festival, which opens tonight at the Ovations Night Club in Rice Village...

Posted on June 22, 2010 · The cast of this years old-time-radio-inspired Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival perform excerpts from their original creation, The Radio Opera Hour which includes Sorry, Wrong Number, a new one-act opera by Houston composer, Michael Remson, adapted from the same Nineteen-Forties radio drama that inspired the classic film-noir suspense-thriller starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster...

Posted on June 16, 2010 · Actors from Main Street Theater take us back to the delightfully twisted world of 1960s musical satirist, Tom Lehrer, with a performance of songs from "Tom Foolery."

Posted on May 19, 2010 · Director Rebecca Greene Udden and actor Philip Lehl share insights into Main Street Theater's staging of Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's time-traveling farce about the death of the universe...

Posted on May 11, 2010 · Actress Holland Taylor, known to many for her recurring role as Evelyn Harper on the T.V. series,