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The 2022-23 lineup of productions looks promising with certified crowd pleasers El Milagro del Recuerdo (the mariachi opera that wowed Paris, France), La traviata, The Marriage of Figaro and Tosca. She is the first female executive director at HGO. Obviously, however, hopes are high that Dastoor, said to be responsible for significantly boosting the financial fortunes of Opera San José, and someone who knows the art form from every angle, will be as able as anyone possibly could be to revive and re-engage the passion and fire for live performance opera from previous opera aficionados and to attract new audience members. "We have a lot of learning to do as we rebuild around re-introducing ourselves to people who would have joined the Houston community in the last few years and also establishing which of our pre-existing customer base is still around to enjoy what we do." It's been many sustained years of really catastrophic destruction from 2018 to the present," she says. "HGO's biggest challenge is how many years of disruption we've had because once you break the habit it’s not a small thing to find other people who are willing to commit not just to one opera a year but to six or seven a year. Brown followed by the complete pandemic-inspired shutdowns of all venue operations. Or in other words, people who for the last few years didn't go because of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey that moved the opera's base of operations from the comfortable Wortham Theater Center to folding chairs in a third floor, auditorily-challenged room at the George R. The real Traviata.Khori Dastoor, who performed professionally as a lyric soprano and who now is the executive director of Houston Grand Opera, knows what the biggest challenge is for HGO right now.
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