Joe Carl White, executive director of Opera Vista, a 2010 MasterMinds Award winner, says Houston’s arts community is a hotbed of innovation and ingenuity, making singling out just three art groups or ...

With opera stories ripped from today’s headlines and a competition between excerpts from contemporary productions, the upcoming Opera Vista Festival will be a bit like “American Idol” meets “Medea.” ...

Watching Opera Vista‘s exhilarating inaugural program last weekend (June 21–24), one thing’s certain: In the contemporary world of opera, the fat lady’s still alive. In the dark decades since Richard ...

Singers from Opera Vista perform vocal miniatures by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem previewing the outdoor concert, Simply American Songs and Gifts, which they’ll present tomorrow ...

It's becoming an annual tradition: opera outdoors at Bayou Bend. Tonight, Houston's Opera Vista company, led by conductor Viswa Subbaraman, celebrates its fifth year of staging opera in the gardens of ...

Opera Vista brings new operas from young and upcoming composers to Houston—and then puts them in competition for audience votes, American Idol-style. Check out the seven operas in the semifinals on ...

Singers from Opera Vista perform excerpts from And Then I Remember, the chamber opera by Estonian-American composer, Lembit Beecher, that was the winning entry in last year’s Opera Vista Competition.