The Fall semester tour of The Princess and the Pea (English) will feature one singer of each voice type (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, and Bass) and the Spring semester tour of The Barber of Seville (English/Spanish) will feature 4 singers (Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, and Bass). We present high-energy operas at schools, libraries and community centers in fully-staged, 45-minute performances. Thank you for your interest in auditioning for Houston Grand Opera's Opera to Go! Our season runs from Augto May 19, 2017. We also have a lot of hats and masks as well… our prop section went through and cleaned out some things… pretty much anything you could think of we have out here,” Hummel said.This application closed on Monday May 9, 2016. Cowboy boots, leather boots, rubber boats, women's heels, we have tap shoes if anyone is picking up a new hobby this year. With women we have period dresses, vintage, 60s, 70s, going back to the 1800s, we also have hoop skirts, petticoats, all the underpinnings as well… we have shoes, both men and women, lots of boots. “It starts off with contemporary, so everyday dress, what we have on right now, men's, women's, shirts, pants, skirts, then we get into more period things, so with men we have doublets, we have breeches, we have frock coats, we have tunics, kimonos, capes, cloaks, uniforms, military. So what exactly can you find at the sale? We challenged Hummel to list as much as she could off the top of her head.

It's the beginning of our season, so we like to call attention to what's happening downtown at the Wortham but also it's in time for Halloween so again we want to help everybody out there have a really good Halloween this year,” said Hummel. Want to put on your very own 'Babes in Toyland,' 'Madama Butterfly,' 'Carmen' or 'Nixon in China'?

In fact, entire productions’ worth of costumes are up for sale. “These are years and years of productions that have been produced here at HGO and these are just items that are no longer in rotation in the season and so we're ready to share them with the community, kind of share our art with the people,” said Hummel.

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