Singing Our Shared Story

FAIN: GG-293337-23

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. (Houston, TX 77002-1504)
Jennifer Bowman (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

A two-year humanities discussion program and educational outreach that uses opera to explore Houston’s shared history.

Houston Grand Opera seeks to invite community discussion around topics in the humanities with the goal of identifying, celebrating, and preserving Houston’s shared history, using its season of operatic productions and new works – which embody the practice of storytelling told through words and music – as a starting point for discovery. By examining themes in a set of HGO opera productions and by inviting the Houston community to directly participate in the development of a set of new operatic works, the multi-disciplinary, humanities-rich artform of opera will serve as the medium for discussions and activities for a broad, non-expert audience, in-person of approximately 115,000 community members of all ages and backgrounds.