Welcome to our 2021-2022 Season!
After a year and a half of alternative programming online and outdoors, OH! announces its return to fully-staged productions in its home venue, Lambert Hall. Headlining the season will be Verdi's Il Trovatore (November 13, 14, 19, 21, 2021) and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (April 2, 3, 8, 10, 2022), both of which were previously canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
OH!'s award-winning collaboration with the Decameron Opera Coalition will continue with its next film series HEROES, featuring OH!'s chapter about the late Houston civil rights activist Eldrewey Stearns, Unsung Activist, composed by and starring Steve Wallace, multi-talented tenor, composer/lyricist, and producer. OH!'s Unsung Activist will be featured within a three-episode series of short opera films and art songs co-produced by the coalition's partner companies. The series will premiere online this October 1st and will be available on-demand thereafter.
OH! is also partnering with Holocaust Museum Houston to co-produce Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang, as part of the museum's "Notorious RBG" exhibition. Composer Derrick Wang describes his opera as, "inspired by the opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia and by the 'operatic precedent' of Händel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Offenbach, Bizet, Sullivan, Puccini, Strauss, et al." Performance will take place in the museum's auditorium, for two performances, June 2 and 5, 2022. *SINGLE TICKETS COMING SOON
“Our '21-22 season is all about reclaiming what the past year took from us and applying what it taught us. In a way, we are picking up where we left off, gratefully bringing back most of the artists whom we previously engaged for 'Trovatore' and 'Onegin. The company has learned some new things since then as they adapted to the pandemic, Building partnerships, producing digital content, and presenting in alternative venues - these will continue to be a part of what we do.”
-Artistic and Interim General Director, Eiki Isomura
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Decameron Opera Coalition: HEROES
A series of 8 short-film operas by 8 American opera companies including Opera in the Heights premiering Unsung Activist by composer/librettist Steve Wallace.
Available on-demand from October 1-December 31, 2021.
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VERDI: IL TROVATORE
A life-long vendetta, a doomed love triangle, and one of Verdi's most electrifying scores.
ONLINE STREAMING COMING SOON
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Her passionate confession of love, his crushing rejection, and the changes of heart that come too late.
April 2, 3, 8, 10
Performances held at Lambert Hall
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Derrick Wang: Scalia/Ginsburg
“We are different. We are one.” Inspired by the opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia and by the “operatic precedent” of Händel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Offenbach, Bizet, Sullivan, Puccini, Strauss, et al.
June 2, 5
Performances held at Holocaust Museum Houston
SINGLE TICKETS COMING SOON