The Astros hit it out of the ballpark Friday night and so did Houston Grand Opera.Harmony in the Air, the Houston Airports’ performing arts program, is one of several efforts the airports have initiated to create memorable and positive travel experiences for passengers and generate higher revenue and stronger customer loyalty. The Astros will live to fight another day and tomorrow (referencing Game 7 of the ALCS).”
To the cheers of the audience many in black-tie, Turner noted, “I chose to pass up being at the stadium (Minute Maid Park only one block away). “Tonight summarizes the great spirt of this city,” Turner said, “the can do city that when we put our minds together and when we work as a unit we can make almost anything happen.” Mayor Sylvester Turner joined Leech, Summers and HGO board chair Jim Crownover in remarks to the audience. “No audience member will have ever been as close to a cast of La Traviata as they will in this theater,” Summers noted during an earlier tour of the space. The transformation was facilitated by Houston First, which owns and operates the GRB. The 120,000 square foot space that will be home to HGO performances throughout the season is built with pipe and drape, cycloramas to capture sound and stadium style seating for 1,500 and floor seating for 200 that allows a remarkable intimacy between performers and audience. We’ve tried to create an environment that you can recognize, something similar to what you had downtown.” “This has brought this company closer together than it’s ever been before. “It’s an amazing experience,” Leech said.
And as reported by the Houston Chronicle, the effort required nearly a mile of trusses, so much in fact that HGO bought everything available in Texas and had to complete the order from New Jersey. To create the comfortable environment HGO required 26 trailer trucks (50 feet in length) to move the necessary equipment into the hall. And to turn this into an artistic place is very, very moving for Houston Grand Opera.” “Because it was in this building where more than 10,000 people were sheltered in the days after the storm. Brown Convention Center, to turn this space into an artistic space,” HGO artistic and musical director Patrick Summers told the audience. “We are particularly honored to be in the George R.
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