HALO’s mission to create inclusive opera exemplified with LGBTQ+ show
July 6, 2023
“What would make you give opera a chance?” asks Leah Edwards, general director of Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera. Affectionately known as HALO, the organization initially took off in 2019. Since then, Edwards and co-founder Dimitri Pittas have devoted every working minute to help reestablish a more inclusive opera...
HALO to host annual driveway concert
April 16, 2023
Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera (HALO), a nonprofit that started with a dream and a driveway, is hosting its third anniversary concert on April 22 at 4:30 p.m. at Brickyard Plantation in Mount Pleasant. The concert will feature local artists Julian Blake Gordon, Katie Small and Samuel Stevenson, as...
Opera performance adds sophisticated flair to opening ceremonies
November 9, 2022
Steeplechase of Charleston prides itself on providing a unique and immersive experience with entertainment on and off the track for everyone to enjoy. New for this year’s event will be a performance from Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera, or HALO. This local nonprofit arts organization takes an all-inclusive approach...
Review: ‘Into the Woods’ is the right show for right now (by the right company, too)
April 8, 2022
After the past two years of strange new terrain, we all know what it feels like to be thrust into the great unknown. And when it comes to musical theater, no one mined the complexities of modern life with equal parts emotional depth and abiding elan in quite the way...
Review: ‘La traviata’ at The Joe is a home run for HALO
October 25, 2021
You know that heralded ditty for the seventh inning stretch: “Take Me Out to the … Opera?” If Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera, or HALO, as it is known, continues to animate Charleston’s favorite ballpark with operatic works like its triumphant current production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La traviata,” such...
A pandemic, a pickup and some serious pipes pave a new way for HALO
June 20, 2021
On a serene Sunday evening in Charleston’s Ansonborough neighborhood, one residence was making a great deal of noise. A couple on the piazza of a pristinely appointed historic home was in the throes of some sort of passionate exchange. Come to find out it wasn’t even their house. Seem a...
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