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Ars Lyrica Houston will close its season with a WWI-inspired staging of Monteverdi's ORFEO at the Hobby Center, featuring tenor Karim Sulayman and the New York Baroque Dance Company.

Ars Lyrica Houston announced its 2026-27 season, Visions & Visionaries, a six-program series that explores the power of imagination in music, spanning from the early Baroque to the Classical era.

Acclaimed soprano Nola Richardson will return to Houston for a special Valentine's Day performance with Ars Lyrica, featuring a program of French Baroque music.

Ars Lyrica Houston will kick off its 2025/26 season, Twists of Fate, with Bach’s Divine Comedy, a dynamic and theatrical program that reveals the many sides of J.S. Bach. Learn more!

Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2025/26 season, Twists of Fate, invites audiences into a world shaped by unpredictable forces - where love, loss, and destiny unfold through music that’s as powerful today as it was centuries ago.

Ars Lyrica Houston concludes its 2024/25 season with Classical Collaborations on Friday, May 23, 2025, at 7:30 PM in Zilkha Hall at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Ars Lyrica Houston has announced its 2025/26 season, Twists of Fate. This new season explores the unpredictable forces that shape lives, through music that draws on ancient myths, biblical parables, and timeless tales of love, loss, and transformation. 

Ars Lyrica Houston (ALH) has announced its upcoming concert, Handel's Theodora, scheduled for Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 6 PM in Zilkha Hall at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Ars Lyrica Houston, the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble celebrated for its authentic performances of Baroque music, ventures into new creative territory with Old Meets New on Sunday, January 19, 2025, at 4:00 PM in Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University.

GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston will present Crossing Borders, a festive evening of music from the 17th and 18th century Spanish and Latin American eras.

Ars Lyrica Houston presents Claudio Monteverdi's timeless late masterworks, The Madrigals of Love and War, on Friday, November 8th in Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center.

Countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen will headline the opening of Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2024/2025 season. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Ars Lyrica Houston has announced their 21st anniversary season, Ties That Bind. Learn more about the six mainstage subscription programs here.

Experience the magic of Handel's opera, AMADIGI DI GAULA, presented by Ars Lyrica Houston on May 24 and 25. Don't miss this enchanting musical journey.

Join soprano Lauren Snouffer for an all-French concert presented by Ars Lyrica Houston. Experience the beauty of French music in this captivating performance.

GRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston presents a quintessentially Baroque program called Fugal Games on Saturday, January 13th at 4pm in Duncan Recital Hall at Rice University.

Early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston will present a festive holiday concert, Awe and Wonder, with an eight-person vocal ensemble and a Baroque orchestra of period instrument specialists.

Join Ars Lyrica Houston for an enchanting evening of Baroque music with 'Ecstatic Visions' on Friday, November 3rd. Immerse yourself in the captivating melodies performed by world-renowned early music performers in Zilkha Hall. Don't miss this extraordinary concert experience.

GRAMMY-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston kicks off their 20th anniversary season, 20 Years of Magic, with a dramatic season opener highlighting the paranormal in Baroque music: Fallen Angels on Friday, September 22nd at 7:30pm in Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (in-person and online). 

The GRAMMY®-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston celebrates 20 Years of Magic, a 2023/24 season celebrating two decades of music-making, with six subscription programs - including a fully staged Handel opera - and two CD releases on the Acis label.