Touring
The company has toured extensively both internationally and nationally The first national tour in 1975 to the Kennedy Center saw the company present Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. This was quickly followed in 1976 by the national, Broadway and European tour of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. During the same year and while Porgy and Bess was playing on Broadway, HGO also presented a revival of another important American opera, John Philip Sousa's El Capitan at the Kennedy Center.
The new staging of Porgy and Bess with the complete Gershwin score was artistically acclaimed. As a consequence, it helped to turn public opinion around about the work, which was then recorded by RCA Records. HGO won a Tony award and a Grammy Award for the production – the only opera company to receive these illustrious prizes.
Internationally, HGO has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Cairo, Zurich, Genoa and Palermo, and to Japan, Canada and Israel.
In September 2011, HGO will present six performances of Cuzar la cara de la luna at the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France for their 2011-12 season. A specially commissioned work, Cruzar la cara de la luna is the world's first Mariachi opera.
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