HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- This week, the Houston Grand Opera embarks on a rare landmark in the performing arts industry with a world premiere of a new American opera commissioned by the company.

HOUSTON — Wednesday is World Opera Day and the Houston Grand Opera is performing the world premiere of a true, but little-known story about two unlikely allies during the Civil War. A woman from a ...

Months before Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere of “Intelligence" on Oct. 20, a rehearsal is underway deep in the fourth-floor maze of the Wortham Theater Center. Director and choreographer Jawole ...

Based upon historical facts pertaining to the underground Civil War spy network of Mary Jane Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew This opera was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera. Virginia Opera ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Adam Turner, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor for Virginia Opera, and Jacqueline Echols McCarley, singing the role of Mary Jane Bowser, join Coast Live to discuss "Intelligence," ...

Dancers from Urban Bush Women will perform in Intelligence at Houston Grand opera. Credit: Photo by Michael Bishop Intelligence, about to make its debut at Houston Grand Opera, bases its libretto on ...

"People told me not to do 'Intelligence' for opening night," said Khori Dastoor, Houston Grand Opera CEO and general director. She didn't listen, and HGO's 2023-24 season opener and celebration dinner ...

There are some operas that knock your socks off: Verdi’s Otello, Strauss’ Salome, Puccini’s Tosca, Wagner’s Die Walküre, Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Adams’ Nixon ...