HGO’s 62nd season will open with a whimsical production of Donizetti’s buoyant The Elixir of Love, featuring tenor Dimitri Pittas as Nemorino and HGO Studio alumna Nicole Heaston as Adina and led by the eminent English conductor Jane Glover, HGO’s 2016–17 Lynn Wyatt Great Artist, in her first HGO appearance. Patrick Summers will conduct Verdi’s thrilling Requiem, which critics at the time termed “an opera in ecclesiastical robes,” with soloists Angela Meade, soprano, in her HGO debut Sasha Cooke, alto Alexey Dolgov, tenor and Peixin Chen, bass and the HGO Orchestra and Chorus. The company will celebrate the 30th anniversary of HGO’s world premiere of John Adams’s pivotal Nixon in China by presenting James Robinson’s production, of which HGO is a co-producer, with HGO Studio alumnus Scott Hendricks as Richard Nixon and soprano Andriana Chuchman as his wife, Pat. HGO will bring back its popular production of Gounod’s Faust, with the HGO debut of international star tenor Michael Fabiano in the title role partnered by Houston favorite Ana María Martínez as Marguerite, along with the role debut of prominent bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as Mephistopheles. Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers will lead Götterdämmerung, the final installment of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle, featuring a new generation of leading Wagnerians including Simon O’Neill as Siegfried and Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde. Houston, 2016-Houston Grand Opera will present four pinnacles of the operatic repertoire during the company’s 2016–17 season, which also features the highly anticipated world premiere of It’s aWonderful Life by composer Jake Heggie with libretto by Gene Scheer, and much-loved comedies by Donizetti and Mozart.
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