The debut of Jake Heggie's piece marks the first time in the company's history that it has kicked off a season with a new work.
Maturity is another thread running through the season — “Falstaff” and “Parsifal” were Verdi and Wagner’s final operas, while “Butterfly” and “Giovanni” came well after Puccini and Mozart had established themselves. Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II died shortly after “Sound of Music” opened on Broadway; it was his and composer Richard Rodgers’ final collaboration.
“Conducting and singing are very different in your third decade of professional life than in your first,” Summers says. “We were reflecting this week on the youth obsession of the culture, and how at odds that is with the performing arts. You don’t perform ‘Parsifal’ in your twenties; or you shouldn’t.”
Acclaimed soprano Ailyn Perez, currently starring in the Metropolitan Opera’s “Falstaff,” will return to Houston to play Cio-Cio-San in “Butterfly” alongside tenor Yongzhao Yu and HGO studio alum Sun-Ly Pierce; while heading up the “Giovanni” cast are Luca Pisaroni, Andriana Chuchman, Ryan McKinny — the title role in HGO’s 2019 production, but here playing the amoral nobleman’s virtuous servant Leporello — tenor Kang Wang’s company debut as Don Ottavio, and Houstonian Sasha Cooke as Donna...
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