Chorus! - Radio Broadcast


photo by Felix Sanchez

McKinny
Summers
Pountney
Kolbet
Lynch
Sims




View clips from HGO's production of Chorus!

"A Policeman's Lot" from Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance

The Anvil Chorus from Verdi's Il Trovatore

"Va pensiero," from Verdi's Nabucco

Spend the Night with the HGO Chorus

 


NOVEMBER 21 at noon - WFMT

A production in two acts featuring the Houston Grand Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Sung in various languages


“A production full of surprises and unexpected joys”
— Houston Press

The award-winning Houston Grand Opera Chorus takes center stage in this one-of-a-kind drama where “we the people” are the main character. Go on a journey from rebellion to revelry with the powerful voices of the HGO Chorus!

This fully costumed and staged production, on the scale of the grandest of grand operas, stars the world-renowned Houston Grand Opera Chorus. With the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Patrick Summers, Chorus! is an unforgettable evening of music and spectacle. See and hear some of opera’s most heart-stopping choruses (from Verdi’s Nabucco and Il trovatore, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, Bizet’s Carmen and more) performed alongside selections from operetta, oratorio and musical theater.

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Synopsis

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Colin Ure's Podcast Guide (mp3)
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Chorus! Sets: What is that photo?

Listen to The Front Row interview with Anthony Freud and David Pountney

Ryan McKinny
Sleep/Police/Sergeant
Khovansky/Pangloss

Caitlin Lynch*
Cunegonde/Jenny/Venus

Shon Sims
Scribe/Candide/Samuel

Jon Kolbet
Kuzka

Octavio Moreno*
baritone

Houston Grand Opera
Chorus and Orchestra


Patrick Summers

Conductor
Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Alkek Music Director Chair

Richard Bado
Chorus Master

David Pountney
Director

Johan Engels
Set and Costume Designer

Damien Cooper
Lighting Designer


* Houston Grand Opera debut