Singing our shared story [houston grand opera seeks to invite community discussion around topics in the humanities with the goal of identifying, celebrating, and preserving houston?S shared history,…

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Houston Grand Opera Association a $385,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to engage the Houston community in discussion around themes and stories explored in HGO's opera productions and new operatic works. The grant will fund the production of opera performances, the development of new operas celebrating Houston's cultural heritage, and community dialogue sessions reaching an estimated 115,000 participants. This humanities-focused project aims to use the storytelling medium of opera to identify, celebrate, and preserve Houston's shared history, inviting broad public participation.

Singing our shared story [houston grand opera seeks to invite community discussion around topics in the humanities with the goal of identifying, celebrating, and preserving houston?S shared history, using its season of operatic productions and new works ? Which embody the practice of storytelling told through words and music ? As a starting point for discovery. By examining themes in a set of HGO opera productions and by inviting the houston community to directly participate in the development of a set of new operatic works, the multi-disciplinary, humanities-rich artform of opera will serve as the medium for discussions and activities for a broad, non-expert audience, in-person of approximately 115,000 community members of all ages and backgrounds.]