January 18 - February 2, 2008 Brown Theater, Wortham Theater Center www.HoustonGrandOpera.org Two lovely young women are held hostage on the Orient Express and endure both the advances of their captors and an elaborate rescue by their fiancés that goes off the rails. Tamara Wilson and Tucker Foundation Award winner Paul Groves join with Andrea Silvestrelli ("there were wild cheers for Silvestrelli" - Chicago Sun Times) and Houston Grand Opera Studio alumni Heidi Stober ("confidence, panache and thrilling technique" - Houston Chronicle) and Nicholas Phan ("a honeyed tenor [with] beautiful phrasing" - Washington Post); William Lacey conducts.