Next May, director Lileana Blain-Cruz will helm a presentation of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, blending live performances and animations by artist Hannah Wasilieski. Next month will bring The Snowy Day Project, marking a collaboration between the The Snowy Day team of composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrew David Pinkney and documentarian Annalise Ophelian. James Niebuhr directs the filmed version, to be released online February 19, 2021. Jake Heggie composed the music, set to poems by Margaret Atwood. With this opera, Houston has had an unprecedented 70 world premieres, 35 of them during the 1972 2005 leadership of David Gockley, who became San Francisco Opera’s general director, 20062016. The piece, which was originally scheduled to play in-person, is baritone Joshua Hopkins’ musical response to grief after his sister Nathalie and two other women were murdered. The Snowy Day is representative of HGO’s longstanding commitment both to major American opera commissions and diversity in the art form. In the meantime, HGO has added some additional offerings to its digital slate, including a filmed version of the song cycle Songs for Murdered Sisters. Alternative programming for both titles will be announced later. The latest closure extension impacts two productions the company had planned in 2021: Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves and a presentation of The Sound of Music. Houston Grand Opera’s ‘The Snowy Day’ Celebrates Black Joy An evocative adaption of the beloved 1962 children’s book casts aside stereotypes and focuses on wonder more than trauma. As COVID cases continue to rise in Texas, Houston Grand Opera has made the decision that arts organizations around the country have rolled out over the past few months: to officially cancel its entire 2020–2021 season, with plans to resume performances in fall 2021.
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