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HOUSTON – The curtain is about to rise at Houston Grand Opera, launching a brand-new season with one of the most powerful and enduring works ever written - Porgy and Bess.

Fifty years after HGO’s groundbreaking 1976 staging went on to Broadway and earned both a Tony and a Grammy, the Gershwins’ masterpiece returns to the Wortham Theater Center in a celebrated new production directed by Francesca Zambello.

And as Houston Life discovered, bringing a story of this scale to the stage takes an entire world behind the curtain - from the conductor’s

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