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For the 2017–2018 season, HGO performed at the 'HGO Resilience Theater', a temporary space created in an exhibit hall at the George R.

Summers took the titles of artistic director and music director, and Leech became managing director. Following Freud's departure, joint leadership was shared between Patrick Summers, who had been music director at HGO since 1998, and Perryn Leech, who joined the company in 2006 and became chief operating officer in 2010. Gockley remained as general director until 2005.Īnthony Freud succeeded Gockley as general director in 2005, and held the post until 2011. During Gockley's tenure, the company began regularly commissioning and producing new works, primarily from American composers. David Gockley succeeded Walter Herbert as general director in 1972. Its inaugural season featured two performances of two operas, Salome (starring Brenda Lewis in the title role) and Madama Butterfly. In 1955, the German-born impresario Walter Herbert and Houstonians Elva Lobit, Edward Bing, and Charles Cockrell founded the company.