a new opera/world premiere commissioned by Houston Grand Opera

music by Jeremy Howard Beck
libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann

conducted by Alex Amsel
directed by Emily N. Wells

This powerfully moving exploration of the experience of homelessness, created in response to in-depth interviews and conversations with Houston’s homeless community, presents the collective voices of a city in search of the meaning of home. Kaleidoscopic and immersive, Another City’s web of intersecting stories chronicles a single day and night in the lives of those experiencing homelessness and those working to help however they can. As housing is lost, gained, and carried as memory, the opera asks: How do we bridge the chasm between the city we can see and the one we can’t—a city which is all around us but invisible, hiding in plain sight?

Venue: Ecclesia | March 9-11, 2023 
Address: 1100 Elder St, Houston, TX 77007

with

Joshua Blue
Travon Walker
Aaron Keeney
Meryl Dominguez
Emily Treigle
Sarah Tucker
Aarianna Longino
Saïd Henry Pressley
Renée Richardson
Rohan Ramanan
Norman Matthews

Design
lights: Michael James Clark
sound: Andrew Harper
costumes: Clair Hummel