HGO explores Houston's homeless world in a new opera. HouGrandOpera
In 2016, Houston Grand Opera issued a call for ideas for new operas and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann urged composer Jeremy Howard Beck to apply. He thought about it and submitted two proposals: one about famed artist James Turrell and the way he works with light, the other an opera about the homeless.
Early on, both Beck and Fleischmann knew they needed more than a few newspaper articles to find the city within the city of Houston. They needed to do their own on-the-ground research which they did in 2018 two separate trips each lasting a week or more. "And so many different kinds of cultures, so many different kinds of backgrounds. So many different issues. One person's story isn't going to hold all the gradations of the problems and the solutions," she explained.
"Our first research trip we were talking to a lot of people, kind of getting the view from 30,000 feet. We talked to a lot of different people who have perspectives on policy and what's being done and what's working and what's not," he said.
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