Houston Grand Opera (HGO) was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and Houston cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit and Edward Bing. With a current annual operating budget of $20 million, HGO has grown from a small regional company. The opera is located in downtown Houston at the Wortham Theater Center, a 437,500-square-foot (40,650 m) facility featuring two theaters—the Alice and George Brown Theater and the Roy an...
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Houston Grand Opera (HGO) was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and Houston cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit and Edward Bing. With a current annual operating budget of $20 million, HGO has grown from a small regional company. The opera is located in downtown Houston at the Wortham Theater Center, a 437,500-square-foot (40,650 m) facility featuring two theaters—the Alice and George Brown Theater and the Roy and Lillie Cullen Theater—which together comprise over 3,500 seats. HGO’s mission is to contribute to the cultural enrichment of Houston and the nation by producing and performing opera; and by creating a diverse, innovative, and balanced program of performances, events, and community and education projects that reach the widest possible public.
The HGO Board meets three times each year and is broken into three parts: an Executive Committee, a Board of Governors and a Board of Trustees. Anthony Freud was selected as HGO's third general director...
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