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BY EMILY LINCKE
Opera Leggera puts on a variety of performances, including musical theater and live music concerts.
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Opera Leggera is a nonprot community theater that holds three to four musical performances per year.
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Opera Leggera celebrates 20 years of theater, music For more than 20 years, nonprot musical theater company Opera Leggera of Kingwood has brought professional musicians and local talent together to Diving deeper The theater holds three to four performances
From right, co-founders Sasha and Chris Holloway, and their daughter, Hannah Auchter, run Opera Leggera.
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each year, which can include an annual Christmas show, live band and singing performances as well as musical theater productions. The couple’s daughter, Hannah Auchter, grew up at Opera Leggera, singing in productions ever since she was 4 years old, Sasha Holloway said. Marking a milestone Opera Leggera celebrated 20 years this season. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s very rewarding ... just seeing the joy that the audience has and that our cast has once we bring the show to life,” Auchter said.
bring joy to audiences, theater ocials said. “Our goal is to unite people through the arts, and give them an experience that they’ll not soon forget,” co-founder Chris Holloway said. The backstory Co-founder Sasha Holloway said she and her husband already had expansive music careers before they decided to open a theater of their own. The couple sang opera for professional perfor- mance companies across Europe—which is how they met—and in Houston.
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