She says it’s less about going into a community like Houston’s Third Ward and saying, essentially, here’s this thing we wrote for you, and more about working with community leaders and residents to ask about what’s happening in a place and if the story created is true to the community represented. Graham says HGO has made it part of the initiative’s mission to ensure that Song of Houston artists and the company itself work directly with members of the community to help tell their stories. That authenticity is vital to the Song of Houston commissions. I think it tells such an authentic story.” “It tackles the issues of gentrification, of family, of Juneteenth. She talks to us by phone from Houston, where she is with the Houston Grand Opera, about the process, and about a dizzying week when she sang in the. “ Home of My Ancestors is an important piece in telling the story of African-Americans in Houston,” says Carleen Graham, the director of HGOco. Houston, JHouston Grand Opera (HGO) has appointed Carleen Graham, an award-winning opera educator, administrator, researcher, and stage director, as director of the company's. The not-yet-titled second opera, by composer Nell Shaw Cohen and librettist Megan Cohen, will premiere in March of 2021.
Home of My Ancestors, by composer Nkeiru Okoye and librettist Anita Gonzalez, will premiere in March 2019.
Song of Houston now has two more commissions in the works.
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