The permanent artistic foundation of HGO rests on three pillars: the HGO Orchestra, HGO Chorus and HGO Studio.

In 1987, HGO officially moved into its home at the Wortham Theater Center, a facility featuring two theaters — the Alice and George Brown Theater and the Roy and Lillie Cullen Theater — which together comprise over 3, 300 seats.

Héctor Germán Oesterheld ( born July 23, 1919 ; disappeared and presumed dead 1977 ), also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field.

Houston Grand Opera ( HGO ) Houston Grand Opera ( HGO ) was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit, Edward Bing and Charles Cockrell.

During the same year and while Porgy and Bess was playing on Broadway, HGO also presented a revival of another important American opera, John Philip Sousa's El Capitan at the Kennedy Center.

Internationally, HGO has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Cairo, Zurich, Genoa and Palermo, and to Japan, Canada and Israel.

In September 2011, HGO will present six performances of Cuzar la cara de la luna at the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France for their 2011-12 season.

Funded by a consortium of Houston's visionary corporate leaders, Nexus provides $ 10 tickets to eligible groups attending HGO for the first time such as, students, community, church, service and cultural organizations, and senior citizens.

From its modest beginnings – HGO's inaugural season featured a mere two performances of two operas, Salome and Madame Butterfly HGO has grown into a company of international stature that presents six to eight productions per season.

One of the country's principal commissioners and producers of new works, HGO has introduced 43 world premieres and six American premieres since 1973.

HGO has received a Tony Award, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards — the only opera company in the world to have won all three honors.

The HGO Association has 166 members: a 34-member Board of Directors, chaired by Beth Madison, as of August 1, 2011, one honorary director, and 131 Trustees.

During Patrick Summers ’ thirteen years with the company, the HGO Orchestra has reached a new level of virtuosity, adding many great masterworks to its repertoire.

The HGO Guild has played an important and instrumental role in making Houston Grand Opera one of the premier opera companies in the world today.

Korhogo's airport ( Korhogo Airport ) has the International Air Transport Association code HGO and the International Civil Aviation Organization code DIKO.

Each year the Houston Grand Opera schedules a High School Night and two Student Matinees from within one of the operas of the HGO season.

Each Teacher Workshop is an hour-long presentation and discussion on an HGO dress rehearsal, encouraging teachers to incorporate opera and the arts into their curriculum.

A non-profit organization with over 2, 300 volunteer members who perform roles such as backstage tours, hosting artists, educational talks, fund raising events, and operating the Guild Boutique, HGO Guild is committed to fostering and encouraging an active, educated, and increasingly diverse audience to experience grand opera.

By providing presentations for classes attending these operas, HGO Guild members help students increase their attention to and enjoyment of the opera.

HGO won a Tony award and a Grammy Award for the production – the only opera company to receive these illustrious prizes.

With an operating budget of $ 20 million in fiscal year 2011 ( the 2010 / 11 season ), HGO is a true cultural service provider to the greater Houston area and the Gulf Coast region, serving over 5 million people annually.

To re-establish the company's relevance to the community, in 2007 HGO established HGOco, a far-reaching initiative established to break down barriers to the arts by creating opportunities for observation, participation, and creation.

The mission of the HGO Guild is to promote and support Houston Grand Opera in all its activities.

Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.

A variation of the " A Chorus Line " instrumental was used as the basis of Tim Dog's debut single, the Ced Gee-produced " Fuck Compton ", which became a modest hit and is credited with helping to spark the East coast / West coast feud of the mid ' 90s.

Some notable moments in the opera include the " Prisoners ' Chorus ", an ode to freedom sung by a chorus of political prisoners, Florestan's vision of Leonore come as an angel to rescue him, and the scene in which the rescue finally takes place.

But before the curtain descends, the Chorus re-appears one more time and ruefully notes, of Henry's own heir's " state, so many had the managing, that they lost France, and made his England bleed " – a reminder of the tumultuous reign of Henry VI of England, which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of plays: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3.

Other partners during this period included Paulette Goddard in Second Chorus ( 1940 ), in which he dance-conducted the Artie Shaw orchestra.

Grayson County High School also has many extra activities in which the children can participate in and the parents can enjoy varying from sports to Chorus.

Redgrave joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon and for the 1951 season appeared as Prospero in The Tempest as well as playing Richard II, Hotspur and Chorus in the Cycle of Histories, for which he also directed Henry IV Part Two.

The sausage seller sets off in pursuit and the action pauses for a parabasis, during which the Chorus steps forward to address the audience on behalf of the author.

On 20 January 1956, he reached # 18 in the UK Singles Chart with a " spoken narrative " recording named " The Shifting Whispering Sands ( Parts 1 & 2 )", which had musical backing by the Ron Goodwin Orchestra and Chorus.

Their biggest Motown hit was 1972's # 1 R & B /# 2 pop hit " Neither One of Us ( Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye )", which won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus.

Olivier's performance won him an engagement as the leading man of the Old Vic Theatre the following season, starting his career as a classical actor, but he was said to have resented Gielgud's direction and developed a wary relationship with Gielgud which resulted in Olivier turning down Gielgud's request to play the Chorus in Olivier's film of Henry V and later doing his best to block Gielgud from appearing at the Royal National Theatre when Olivier was its director.

Jacobi continued to play Shakespeare roles, notably in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film of Henry V ( as the Chorus ), and made his directing debut as Branagh's director for the 1988 Renaissance Theatre Company's touring production of Hamlet, which also played at Elsinore and as part of a Renaissance repertory season at the Phoenix Theatre in London.

In Ireland, UPC Ireland, which formally traded under the brand name Chorus NTL, is by far the largest cable and MMDS operator, owning all of the state's MMDS licences and almost all of the state's cable TV operators.

He portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film, Second Chorus ( 1940 ), which featured Shaw and his orchestra playing " Concerto for Clarinet.

Starring Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach and Gwen Verdon in her last Broadway role, it suffered from a cynical attitude, which contrasted with the record-breaking popularity of A Chorus Line.

Along with these groups the university has a wide variety of vocal groups which include the Choir of the West, University Chorale, University Singers, University Men's Chorus, Choral Union, and Chapel Choir.

The existing licences expire in 2012 ( ntl ) and 2014 ( Chorus ) with an option extend to 2017 / 2019 following a review which commenced in May 2010.

The Orchestra has collaborated with other local institutions, like the Hawaii Opera Theatre and the Oʻahu Choral Society, which sponsors the Honolulu Symphony Chorus and the Honolulu Chamber Choir.

The airport hosts the headquarters of Chorus Aviation and was formerly home to CanJet which is now headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

There was also a comedy Big Chicken Chorus in the 1990s, which produced an album called Poultry In Motion, and another called We Need a Little Christmas.

He returned from Rome in 1962 to take up a position at Brandeis as director of the University Chamber Chorus, which presented classical vocal works alongside modern compositions and new commissions.

A skirmish follows, during which the Athenians defend themselves with kitchen utensils they find outside the Hoopoe's bower, until the Hoopoe at last manages to persuade the Chorus to give his human guests a fair hearing.

Generally there is a long parabasis in the middle of the play, including a ' parabasis proper ' in which the Chorus speaks as the author's representative on issues relating to his career, and usually there is a shorter parabasis near the end.

Among the myriad plays and musicals Papp produced, Papp is perhaps best known for four productions which transferred to commercial Broadway runs: the original version of Galt MacDermot's Hair, a star-studded production of The Pirates of Penzance, self-proclaimed black feminist Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf and the anomaly that was A Chorus Line.

Its workshop system for developing musicals, which Bennett and Papp had pioneered, revolutionized the way Broadway musicals were created thereafter, and many of the precedents for workshops ' aesthetics and contract agreements were set by Papp, Bennett and " A Chorus Line.