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Soprano Beverly Sills pens the preface the text provides an in-depth history spanning five decades. This tome records the birth and transformation of HGO from its humble regional beginnings to today's internationally touted opera company. Opera denizens take note: HGO's fabulous first 50 years are documented, detailed and celebrated in the lush, recently released Houston Grand opera at Fifty (Herring Press, $75).

Anspon, published in PaperCity, February 2006 far more sweet than bitter.īy Catherine D. Of course, with the recent decampment of David Gockley to San Francisco, there's something bittersweet between the lines. Ginsberg, on the second 25 years by Carl Cunningham (longtime performing arts critic for the Houston Post) and on HGO's ridiculous embarrassment of world premieres by national critic Alan Rich. In addition, there's plenty of content between these covers - including essays on the company's first 25 years by Robert I. Sets, costumes and choreography continually form striking images, captured here in full-page color photos. Undeniably, the photos tell the tale best, since HGO in recent decades has been not only a visible but a visual opera company.

Celebrating the first half century of Houston Grand Opera, including formative decades under the recently departed David Gockley, this massive book from Herring Press might break as many coffee tables as it graces, but it's worth every penny of its $75 cover price - and, for opera lovers, every memory as well. On the heels of all the hoopla - where but Houston would a celebration of opera load in celebs as different as Sir Elton John and Sir Roger Moore? - comes a commemorative book no less extravagant.