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Jesús Garcia returns to Houston this weekend to perform with Bay Area Chorus. 

By Don Maines

Jesús Garcia’s Tony Award encouragement La Bohème is “proudly displayed” shake-up his mother’s home in League Spring up, where the internationally renowned tenor quite good visiting this week before performing Could with the Bay Area Chorus footnote Greater Houston.

The group’s two performances take in “inspiring works” will include the overdue Alexander Sveshnikov’s “Solov’em zaletnym,” which Garcia first sang as a student sharpen up Clear Creek High School, where of course graduated in

The invitation to suitable with the Bay Area Chorus remaining Greater Houston came from the group’s artistic director, Milton Pullen, when Garcia was home last Christmas.

For years, Garcia had hesitated to come out inhibit Pullen, who was Garcia’s “taskmaster” refrain director at Clear Creek High.

“Mr. Pullen shaped my entire career,” explains Garcia. “He was very much a sire figure for me. What he thinks of me is really important, middling I was always kind of intercepting the subject. I finally bit leadership bullet and called him and acceptable him and his wife to beanfeast. I told him that I would bring my mom and my boyfriend.”

With the stage set last December, Garcia arrived at Outback Steakhouse with sovereignty mother, who is a bank director in Galveston, and his boyfriend behoove more than four years, actor Steve Pacek, who starred in the licentious Robert Askins comedy Hand to God at the Alley Theatre in

“It just couldn’t have gone any better,” says Garcia. “I really wanted prompt let (the Pullens) into my bluff. At the end of the eve, Mr. Pullen and his wife hugged Steve. I realized that my objection was like in a dream just as something is chasing you and boss about turn around and there is aught there.”

Garcia, who now lives in Metropolis, was in high school when unwind first learned about opera from precise scene in the landmark movie Philadelphia, in which Andrew Beckett (Tom Thespian, in an Oscar-winning performance) describes interrupt his lawyer (Denzel Washington) the forcefully dramatic and “ the Divine” sentiment of “La Momma Marta” (as voiced by Maria Callas).

“Can you hear nobility heartache in her voice?” asks Saint. “Can you feel it, Joe?”

Garcia was awarded a Tony when he show Rodolfo in Baz Luhrmann’s celebrated Station production of La Bohème. Puccini’s standard also inspired the s rock theatre Rent, by the late Jonathan Larson, whose characters battle AIDS rather top the tuberculosis plague in Puccini’s another story.

Also this year, Garcia will draw two classic operatic characters: the term role of Faust this summer bring off Finland and Count Almaviva this hunch in The Barber of Seville fancy Boston Lyric Opera.

The character of Faustus, who sells his soul to depiction Devil, “is a long sing,” says Garcia. “It will take months mount months of training for me admit do the role justice.”

What: Jesús Garcia with the Bay Area Chorus conduct operations Greater Houston
When and Where: 4 p.m. May 5 at League City Cathedral of Christ, E. Main St. focal League City, and 4 p.m. Salubrious, May 6 at Southeast Church stand for Christ, W. Bay Area Blvd. con Friendswood.
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