Date
Mar 19, 2027
Event Type
Houston Is Inspired, Opera
Ticket Price
Individual tickets start at $20
Three-show Houston Is Inspired packages start at $49
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Show Description
SERIES SPONSOR
Gene and Debbie Straka
Presented by the Hobby Center
Houston Is Inspired is a series of original performances by Houston artists, each offering a fresh perspective on the city and a deeper connection to its creative community.
Looking Back, Leaping Forward celebrates Musiqa’s 25th anniversary with a double bill of new chamber operas exploring memory, change, and the choices that shape our lives.
Iphigenia by composer Anthony Brandt reimagines a Greek myth in a contemporary setting, where a proposed wind energy project becomes a flashpoint for a community navigating uncertainty. When shifting conditions force a reversal, the work explores the tension between progress and short-term comfort, asking what we’re willing to give up, and who ultimately bears the cost.
In Follow the Sky by Pierre Jalbert and Stephanie Fleischmann, a philosophy student is haunted by the music of an aging violinist, whose playing permeates the apartment building where they live. Inspired by HP Lovecraft’s The Music of Erich Zann, this meditation on music as a lifeline in the face of fractured memory explores the trauma of displacement and the meaning of home.
Performance Schedule
- Audio Description
- Open Captions
- ASL
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- Fri Mar 19, 2027 at 7:30 pm
About Musiqa
Musiqa is Houston’s creative convergence point for new music, bringing together artists, ideas, and disciplines—from dance and theater to neuroscience and AI—to create work that reflects the world around us. Since 2002, Musiqa has performed works by more than 300 living composers, presented more than 100 world premieres, and commissioned 50+ new works in collaboration with artists across disciplines.
Rooted at the Hobby Center with nearly 150 performances in Zilkha Hall since 2004, Musiqa has grown into a nationally and internationally recognized organization, with awards from Chamber Music America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and New Music USA, and a presence that has reached as far as the French-American Cultural Exchange and the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
About the Houston is Inspired Mural
The Houston Is Inspired series logo and mural, on display in Zilkha Hall, were created by artist GONZO247 for the Hobby Center, reflecting Houston culture and drawing from a visual theme in his mural at Market Square Park.
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