Brief Encounter - Previn World Premiere

photo by Felix Sanchez

Futral	Gunn	Josephson
Summers	Caird

"[Previn's] great talent as a composer is to catch you unawares. In Brief Encounter, he hooks you with a melody, turns it on its side and moves on, measure after measure feeling like a brief but significant encounter. The opera will last." - LA Times
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"Feel free to fall madly in love with Brief Encounter." - Houston Chronicle
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"[Brief Encounter] is a skillful musical reimagining of this intimate romance about infidelity." - Wall Street Journal

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Principal Guarantor
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Guarantor
Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation

Grand Underwriter
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Brief Encounter is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for
the Arts

The production of Brief Encounter received funding from OPERA America's Opera Fund

May 1, 5, 7, 9, 2009
May 3, 2009

7:30PM
2:00PM

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Brown Theater
Sung in English with surtitles

Houston Grand Opera presents the world premiere of André Previn’s Brief Encounter, based on David Lean’s classic film adaptation of a play by Noël Coward. An honest and compassionate look at emotional infidelity, Brief Encounter stars Elizabeth Futral and Nathan Gunn as Laura and Alec, the couple torn between love and loyalty, and Kim Josephson as Laura’s bewildered husband; Patrick Summers conducts.