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

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.

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.

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 Chorus, which was created at the same time as HGO itself in 1955, has become one of the world's most acclaimed opera choruses under the direction of Chorus Master Richard Bado.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Pattern-welded steel has been referred to as " Damascus steel " since 1973 when Bladesmith William F. Moran unveiled his " Damascus knives " at the Knifemakers ' Guild Show.

" George Sidney, President of the Directors Guild, stated that " This is the first time in the history of Hollywood, that the city of Los Angeles has officially recognized a creative talent.

For instance, a Thief who has not registered with the Thieves ' Guild may well find his ears nailed to the Guild door.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

He has received two People's Choice Awards, and in 1999 his directorial skills were recognized with a nomination for a Directors Guild of America award for directing an episode of Frasier.

He has earned and been nominated for numerous awards during his career, including winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia and a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for his role in Forrest Gump, and earning the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the BAFTAs in 2004.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

She has won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

He has Max explain that he cannot simply glance at something and have it memorized ; as in the case of the astrogation and Stewards ' Guild manuals, he must actually read them as would anyone else, but then the knowledge is perfectly retained in his memory.

He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Ian McKellen has received widespread acclaim for his performance as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, particularly in The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he received both a Screen Actors Guild Award and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination under the same category ( making him the only individual cast member of the films to be nominated for an Oscar ).

Venturi's architecture has had world-wide influence, beginning in the 1960s with the dissemination of the broken-gable roof of the Vanna Venturi House and the segmentally arched window and interrupted string courses of Guild House.

The Administration Committee has 24 members: 10 designated by the American Wing, 10 by The Broadway League, and one each by the Dramatists Guild, Actors ' Equity Association, United Scenic Artists and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown.

He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor.

He has been nominated for top awards many times, winning the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Some of the awards that Depp has won include honors from the London Film Critics Circle ( 1996 ), Russian Guild of Film Critics ( 1998 ), Screen Actors Guild Awards ( 2004 ) and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television ; her awards include eleven BAFTAs, ( including the Bafta Fellowship in 2001 ) seven Laurence Olivier Awards, ( including the Society's Special Award ) two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

Farrell has been active in the Screen Actors Guild.

Mr. Ponicsan has been nominated for a number of awards, such as the Golden Globe and the Writer's Guild Award.

Throughout her career, Louis-Dreyfus has received three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Since 1995, the guild has annually awarded the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards.