Joseph Kaiser stars and music director Patrick Summers conducts in the David Pountney production that was used for the opera’s staged world premiere at the 2010 Bregenz Festival in Austria - 42 years after the score was completed. The opera is based on a novel about a former SS officer on a cruise ship who thinks she recognizes a former Auschwitz prisoner. The 2013-14 season announced also includes the North American premiere of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s “The Passenger” on Jan. The work based on the play of the same name by Horton Foote will open March 14, 2014, in a co-production with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Now Houston Grand Opera presents five performances of Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), the final part. Sixty-seven-year-old Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will come out of retirement for the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s “A Coffin in Egypt,” the company said Wednesday. Margaret Downing Ap8:00AM In Das Rheingold, local gymnasts portrayed gold. The Houston Grand Opera plans to present the futuristic Fura dels Baus productions of Wagner’s four Ring Cycle operas over four consecutive seasons starting with “Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)” in 2013-14.
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