New York's Metropolitan Opera is withdrawing $30 million from its endowment to cover a post-COVID drop in support but local organizations say they have no plans to do the same.
The schedule for Houston Grand Opera's 'The Wreckers' conflicted with the World Series but still helped HGO this season by burnishing the group's reputation for adventurous material.It seems logical to think that difficulties at one of the nation’s leading artistic institutions, in this case New York’s Metropolitan Opera, could easily spread to its counterparts across the country. In Houston, however, that may not be the case.
Artistic risks are nothing new to HGO, either. The company will open next season with a world premiere, its 75th since its 1955 launch with Richard Strauss’ controversial “Salome,” which it will reprise this spring. Furthermore, Dastoor believes the success of holiday opera “El Milagro del Recuerdo” could be a sign of things to come: more audiences picking their shows a la carte as opposed to the old-school subscription model.
Though not without concerns of their own, Houston’s other major arts companies are likewise looking to carry some momentum into the new year. HGO’s Wortham neighbors in Houston Ballet are fresh off one of the most successful runs of “The Nutcracker” in the company’s history — 36 performances that sold to 93 percent capacity, according to executive director James Nelson.
But with audiences increasingly gravitating towards such so-called event programming, Gladden says the Alley’s challenge is to reconnect with theatergoers who are willing to take a chance on an unfamiliar production, “but know that they're going to see a great performance no matter what the play is.”
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