Opera 101: Let’s Build an Opera
Posted April 26th, 2012
Friday May 4th
8pm-10pm
Join us for the last Opera 101 event of the 2011-2012 season. This month we will be seriously testing your opera chops and challenging you to use the knowledge you acquired this year to build an opera with us!
Will it be a romatic tale of a relationship gone awry between Buffy the vampire slayer and Harry Potter? Or maybe it will be a historical journey focusing on Genghis Khan and the Mongols? It’s up to you!
If you have any questions about this event or Opera Vista please address them to Jen at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
We hope to see you there!
Opera 101: Opsical! Musical or opera- You decide!
Posted March 26th, 2012
Friday, March 30th
8pm-10pm
Do you know the difference between an opera and a musical? Could you identify each if you heard musical excerpts?
Come find out!
Each month, Opera Vista will introduce you to a new facet of the world of opera. Presented by our founder and artistic director Viswa Subbaraman, we will be exploring the many shadings and variations that make opera such an intriguing art form.
If you have any questions about this event or Opera Vista please address them to Jen at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
We hope to see you there!
Opera 101, Friday March 2nd, “Ensembles”
Posted February 26th, 2012
Friday, March 2nd
8-10pm
Last month audience members learned about the singer's perspective when preparing for and performing a role! This month we will take a look at operatic ensembles!
Each month, Opera Vista will introduce you to a new facet of the world of opera. Presented by our founder and artistic director Viswa Subbaraman, we will be exploring the many shadings and variations that make opera such an intriguing art form.
If you have any questions about this event or Opera Vista please address them to Jen at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
We hope to see you there!
Houston Press Honors Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman
Posted February 2nd, 2012
Opera Vista is proud to announce that Viswa Subbaraman has been named by Houston Press as one of Houston's most creative people!
"When Viswa Subbaraman was an undergraduate at Duke University, he had no idea where he would end up. He had played trombone and violin, but music as a career to him did not seem like an option. He had come from a family of doctors and was planning on becoming one himself -- that was, until his sophomore year. It was while studying abroad in Vienna that he realized that his passion was music and that he wanted to be a conductor.
Today, only a little more than a decade later, he is the Artistic Director and founder of Opera Vista, a company he has been running in Houston for the last five years. He says that the mission of Opera Vista is to make opera more accessible to our generation and t o make opera a lot more fun."
Read the full article here
Powder Her Face Receives Glowing Reviews!
Posted December 6th, 2011
“Maestro and Opera Vista's artistic director Viswa Subbaraman pulled out all the stops for this work, and the four singers, who, except for the Duchess, double and triple up as other characters, were exceptionally good. This is terribly complicated music -- what with its fishing reels and bowls of water and other effects -- but Subbaraman made it all sound easy, drawing out the score with a lover's rapt attention.”
-Houston Press
“If you want to witness great singing and acting, if you want to hear the epitome of the post-modern aesthetic in very late 20th century opera, this performance is for you.”
-culturemap
"The fifth anniversary season for Hous- ton’s contemporary opera troupe, Opera Vista (OV), has surely been full of mixed emotions for founder and artistic direc- tor Viswa Subbaraman. After opening the season for an audience of 300–500 at Bayou Bend with a troublesome production of the rarely produced opera “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Philip Glass, Subbaraman and his company set a new standard for themselves as they turned out the best performance in their short history with the recent Houston premiere of Thomas Adés’ controversial opera “Powder Her Face” at the Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall."
-Arts and Culture Houston
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