Houston cancels into April

Message from Houston Grand Opera:

HGO has … made the difficult decision to cancel 33 of the 47 mainstage and Cullen Theater performances of the 2020–21 season, through the spring of 2021. The canceled performances include Carmen (Oct. 23–Nov. 13), Werther (Oct. 30–Nov. 15), the world premiere of The Snowy Day (Dec. 10–Dec. 20), Parsifal (Jan. 22–Feb. 7, 2021), and Cinderella (Jan. 29–Feb. 15, 2021). HGO plans to welcome audiences back to the Wortham Theater Center beginning in April 2021 for the HGO premieres of Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves (Apr. 16–May 1, 2021) and Rodgers and Hammerstein II’s The Sound of Music (Apr. 30–May 15, 2021). The company will perform four of the five originally scheduled performances of Breaking the Waves.