Portuguese diva Mariza performs this weekend at the Wortham Center. Mariza has sold millions of records worldwide.
The international singer performs a native musical style of fado, but uses a wide variety of musical styles, including gospel, soul and jazz. Her father strongly encouraged her to adopt fado; he felt that participating in the traditional music would grant her 
greater acceptance in the Portuguese community. Fado is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. The word "fado" possibly comes from the Latin word fatum ("fate", "death" or "utterance").
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Houston's Grand Opera this weekend continues its staging of Don Giovanni an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Don Giovanni is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the 
National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, back in 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements. Houston's Grand Opera bills it as, "Seduction, passion, and guilt lead to a fateful end."
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Eight World Golf Hall of Famers will headline the 2019 
Insperity Invitational The annual gold tournement boasts some twenty-eight of the top thrity players on PGA TOUR. The Insperity Invitational started this past Monday (April 29, 2019) and will wrap up this weekend.
It will be a field of 78 PGA Tour professionals competing for a a purse of 2.2 million dollars, with 54 holes of stroke play. The first place prize 330-million-dollars. Last years champion Bernard Langer will be competing to hold on to title again this year.
Langer has won the Invitational four times in the last ten years(2007, 2008, 2014, 2018). Langer a German professional golfer is a two-time Masters champion and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, he became the golf's first official number one ranked player following the creation of the OWGR. (Official World Golf Ranking)
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This weekend its the Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award---Crimes Of The Heart at the Alley Theatre on the Hubbard st
age. It runs until May 5, 2019.
It's Beth Henley’s first play brings you to the Mississippi home of the Magrath sisters. Babe has just shot her husband because she didn't like his looks. This brings middle sister Meg back to town from Los Angeles, where she is unsuccessfully pursuing a music career. And poor Lenny, everyone has forgotten her birthday! Warm-hearted, irreverent, and imaginative, Crimes of the Heart teems with humanity as the sisters forgive the past, face the present, and embrace the future. Renowned Director Theresa Rebeck returns to the Alley to direct.
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