The concert’s only non-Floyd music was the opening work, the Overture from Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. His influence on the opera world extended to his helping found and lead the HGO Studio training program, whose alumni include soprano Ana Maria Martinez mezzo-sopranos Joyce DiDonato, Denyce Graves and Jamie Barton and many other notables. The evening also heralded Floyd as a mentor. Through excerpts from Floyd’s operas and reminiscences by people who knew him, the program at Wortham Theater Center created a portrait of Floyd the composer-a champion of traditional melody, harmony and such when they were out of fashion. HGO looked back across his career on Friday with “Celebrating Carlisle Floyd”-a memorial concert to the company’s longtime ally, who died last September 30 at age 95. His move to the University of Houston in 1976 brought him the bonus of a new creative home: Houston Grand Opera, which staged a decades-long series of Floyd premieres and revivals, right up to the unveiling of his last opera, Prince of Players, in 2016. Photo: Melissa TaylorĬarlisle Floyd was a young faculty member at Florida State University when his Susannah made him an operatic sensation in the mid-1950s. A wonderful piece of Sendak ephemera.Andrea Carroll performed “Ain’t it a pretty night!” from Susannah at Houston Grand Opera’s tribute to composer Carlisle Floyd Friday night. The illustration for Billy Budd is of particular interest, given Sendak’s life-long admiration of Melville. Sendak interpreted scenes from the six operas being produced during the season which were: Verdi’s Macbeth, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, Britten’s Billy Budd, Strauss’ Arabella, and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. This catalog was created for the Houston Grand Opera’s season and features six full-color illustrations by the Caldecott Medalist that did not appear elsewhere.
Based on the success of his design work on the 1980 Houston Grand Opera production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, which went on to tour the world for many years, Maurice Sendak collaborated with the Opera to mastermind a new co-production of Hansel and Gretel for the 1997/98 season.
Covers lightly soiled at edges.įirst and only edition. Houston Grand Opera’s 1997/98 Season Catalog.
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