HGO's first staging of 'Porgy and Bess' in 50 years plugs into Houston's history, diversity

Houston Grand Opera's 1976 production of George Gershwin's controversial classic about African Amercan life won a Tony Award ...
Channel 3000

At Last, Madison Can Hear DeMain’s “Porgy” and See It, Too

Every bio of Madison Symphony music director, and Madison Opera artistic director mentions it: John DeMain’s conducting of the Houston Grand Opera 1976 production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess was a ...
WQXR

The Vocal Scene with George Jellinek: American Opera 1776-1976

WQXR opens up its archives this summer with a new weekly series devoted to some of its most popular programs. Since WQXR has been around for more than 83 years, that’s a lot of historical radio to ...
The Business Journals

How Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is shaping the city’s cultural landscape

While the idea of a summer opera festival located in the Gateway City may not sound like the most obvious idea, it’s a setting that has proven extraordinarily fruitful. Every May and June since 1976, ...
The Boston Globe

Dominick Argento, composer who was a modern master of opera, dies at 91

WASHINGTON — Dominick Argento, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who was probably the most celebrated creator of new American operas between the heyday of Gian Carlo Menotti in the 1950s and the ...
The Herald-Times

Students work with pros to perform Wagner's last opera for first time since 1976

In the early 1970s, close to a decade before I moved to Bloomington in December 1984, I visited the town to witness a musical tradition that was soon to end: a performance of Richard Wagner’s ...