Friday Nights (series E) — Hgo 2026–27 – Wortham Theater Center, Houston

About this event

Friday Nights (Series E – Best Value) is Houston Grand Opera’s fixed-seat Friday subscription across the 2026–27 season, bundling six different mainstage productions in the Brown Theater at the Wortham Theater Center. The dates and titles are: Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah (Nov 6, 7:30 pm); Gounod’s Faust (Nov 13, 7:30 pm); Verdi’s Aida (Feb 5, 7:30 pm); Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Feb 12, 7:30 pm); Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (May 7, 6:00 pm); and Kern & Hammerstein II’s Show Boat (May 14, 7:30 pm). Each night features its own cast and creative team, all presented by HGO.

Cast & creative

• R

  Choreographer

  Renaud Doucet
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  Composer

  Carlisle Floyd
• C

  Composer

  Charles-François Gounod
• J

  Librettist

  Jules Barbier
• M

  Librettist

  Michel Carré
• G

  Composer

  Giuseppe Verdi
• A

  Librettist

  Antonio Ghislanzoni
• A

  Librettist

  Auguste Mariette
• W

  Composer

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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  Music Arranger

  Kristjan Randalu
• E

  Librettist

  Emanuel Schikaneder
• J

  Librettist

  János Lackfi
• M

  Librettist

  Mário João Alves
• H

  Instrumentalist

  H. Dutschke
• R

  Instrumentalist

  Ralph Lockwood
• R

  Composer

  Richard Strauss