Opera – MOSAEC

At Houston Grand Opera, ‘This Is a Good Time’

Driven by creative leadership and generous donors, the company, long a beacon of innovation, is bucking trends in the field.

By Zachary Woolfe

Joana Mallwitz is in calm, stylish command making her debut with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” running in repertory with “The Magic Flute.”

By Zachary Woolfe

At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for better opera.

By Joshua Barone

Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” has been added onto by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Now, another composer gets to have his say.

By Jeffrey Arlo Brown