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is a visual and musical delight. United States Joel Thompson, The Snowy Day: Soloists, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers (conductor). Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX, 9.12.2021. (RP) I woke up to snow on Christmas Eve – it was just the morning to watch Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day, which premiered at the Houston Grand Opera ...
Plot. A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small ...
Dec 10, 2021 · L-R: Andres Acosta, Cory McGee, Raven McMillon and Nicolas Newton in Houston Grand Opera’s “The Snowy Day / Lynn Lane Photography . While New York’s Metropolitan Opera achieved a major milestone this fall by presenting Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, making it the first opera by a Black composer ever performed in Met history, Houston Grand Opera has presented four operas ...
Dec 19, 2021 · The book, Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day” was the source of such an operatic adaptation, commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera. Although Keats’ “The Snowy Day” is a story about a boy’s first experiences in snow, the book’s characters are sympathetic representations of black children and adults, who were conspicuously absent from most children’s literature up until its 1963 ...
Nov 29, 2021 · Performances of The Snowy Day are scheduled for December 9-19 at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursdays through Sunday and 2:30 p.m. Sundays at the Wortham Center, 500 Texas Avenue. Masks covering nose and ...
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Dec 3, 2021 · “My family would love listening to The Snowy Day, whereas it might be a little harder to pull them into a Mozart opera.” The show runs through Dec. 19, 2021. The Snowy Day is the HGO's 72nd world premiere and first-ever opening-night livestream, which you can watch for free on the HGO Digital webpage.
Dec 2, 2021 · The Houston Grand Opera has announced that it will be streaming the opening performance of “The Snowy Day.” The opera, which will world premiere on Dec. 9, represents the company’s 71st world premiere ever. The opera was composed by Joel Thompson and features a libretto by Andrea David Pinkney. The opera will star Raven McMillon alongside Nicholas Newton, Elena Villalón, {…}
