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Making opera popular: Opera in the Heights gets wicked thanks to a hot maestro makeover

By Joel Luks

03.27.13 | 12:16 pm

When Opera in the the Heights needed a makeover, incoming maestro Enrique Carreón-Robledo simply had to take over. He taught the energetic company the proper poise needed to talk to boys, wh ...

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Piss off women at your own risk: Opera in the Heights' Macbeth whips you like a dominatrix

By Joel Luks

02.07.13 | 3:38 pm

Lessons learned from Shakespeare's Macbeth: Listening to women may be hazardous to your health. May cause visions, delusion, psychotic episodes and unwelcome ghosts to manifest at the most inco ...

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Mad Max, Poltergeist and Shakespeare merge: Opera in the Heights embraces the supernatural

By Joel Luks

01.31.13 | 1:36 pm

It's quite possible that Giuseppe Verdi didn't understand one word of William Shakespeare's Macbeth when he saw it for the first time. Scholars say that the Italian Romantic c ...

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events

By Joel Luks

09.27.12 | 10:30 am

On tap this week are events that strive to keep Houston verdant, the premiere of an opera written more than a century ago, a dirty adventure race, walking tours, a whimsical costumed race and conte ...

Opera in the Heights presents Falstaff

Opera in the Heights

04.25.13 - 05.05.13

Falstaff is a corpulent, frequently inebriated old man in this comedy, but that does not stop him from trying to seduce the married ladies of Windsor. He fancies himself a dandy and is overambitiou

Opera in the Heights presents Verdi's Macbeth

Opera in the Heights

01.31.13 - 02.10.13

The emotional impact of seeing and hearing Lady Macbeth goad her husband into bloody violence in order to amass power makes a compelling opera. A Scottish general returning from battle, Macbeth

Opera in the Heights presents Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Opera in the Heights

11.08.12 - 11.18.12

The second Houston premiere and Shakespearean operatic adaptation of Opera in the Heights' season tells the story of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. When the opera begins the two you

Opera in the Heights presents Rossini's Otello

Opera in the Heights

09.27.12 - 10.07.12

This Houston premiere offers a unique slant on the well-known story of how jealousy, "the green-eyed monster," can consume and destroy lives. The Moorish general and military hero Ote

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Arts hub or hip grocery store? Renderings of Independent Arts Collaborative space have an industrial edge

By Joel Luks

05.24.12 | 1:48 pm

If the newly-released renderings for the proposed Independent Arts Collaborative give rise to feelings of deja-vu, it's because a much-larger twin was erected already on the corner of Alabama a ...

Toi Toi Toi

Shakespeare in the house: Opera in the Heights' new season tunes to 19th century Italy

By Joel Luks

03.18.12 | 7:32 am

Toi Toi Toi! Opera in the Heights 2012-13 program lineup may be ambitious. But since artistic director Enrique Carreón-Robledo stepped up to the conductor's podium, the company ...