During HGO’s 2024-25 season, Andrew Harper, a sound designer and consultant for theater, opera, and ballet, serves as sound designer for West Side Story. He has designed HGO works including The Sound of Music (2024), Another City (2023), the outdoor singalong My Favorite Things (2021), El Milagro del Recuerdo (world premiere, 2019), The Phoenix (world premiere, 2019), The Flying Dutchman (2018), Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (2018), this production of West Side Story (2018), The House without a Christmas Tree (world premiere, 2017), It’s a Wonderful Life (world premiere, 2016), Carousel (2016), Sweeney Todd (2015), A Coffin in Egypt (world premiere, 2014), and A Little Night Music (2014). Additionally, he has designed sound for productions with Washington National Opera/Kennedy Center, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Lyric Opera Kansas City, The Atlanta Opera, San Antonio Opera, El Paso Opera, and Houston Ballet, among others. In summer 2021, he designed the outdoor sound system for the Glimmerglass on the Grass Festival in New York, as well as its six productions: The Magic Flute, Songbird, Il trovatore, Gods and Mortals, To the World, and The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson. As sound designer for Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars, Harper has designed sound for more than 50 productions since 2013, with recent credits including Disney’s Frozen, Little Shop of Horrors, and Newsies.