In June 2021, the company announced the appointment of Khori Dastoor as its next general director and CEO, effective January 2022. Leech stood down as managing director of the company in December 2020. Brown Convention Center, after the Wortham Theater Center was closed due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. For the 2017–2018 season, HGO performed at the 'HGO Resilience Theater', a temporary space created in an exhibit hall at the George R. Summers took the titles of artistic director and music director, and Leech became managing director. Following Freud's departure, joint leadership was shared between Patrick Summers, who had been music director at HGO since 1998, and Perryn Leech, who joined the company in 2006 and became chief operating officer in 2010. Gockley remained as general director until 2005.Īnthony Freud succeeded Gockley as general director in 2005, and held the post until 2011. During Gockley's tenure, the company began regularly commissioning and producing new works, primarily from American composers. David Gockley succeeded Walter Herbert as general director in 1972. Its inaugural season featured two performances of two operas, Salome (starring Brenda Lewis in the title role) and Madama Butterfly. In 1955, the German-born impresario Walter Herbert and Houstonians Elva Lobit, Edward Bing, and Charles Cockrell founded the company.

8.1 World premieres through the 2019–20 season.8 Premieres, recordings, and television appearances.

7.4 National MultiCultural Institute Award.

Houston grand opera address