I have for years, 50 years, developed techniques that help me see an actor better.” You have to make everything a little bit larger so that it reads better.

“It’s a very big theater in Houston Grand Opera and you have people very far away. So I exaggerate the makeup on the eyes and the mouth so that I can see the movement of the eyes. Then white faces - in order to see a singer or to hear a singer if I see their mouth moving if I see their face, it’s the psychological thing, I think I hear better. “The first thing I do in the theater is to light. “Light is the most essential element in theater, the element that helps us to hear and see better,” Robert Wilson says.

A large part of her reason for doing this HGO production is director Wilson ‘s use of movement and light - something he has been known for in all his productions.

Singer Wilson (no relation to the director) says that while she loves singing this role known for its many notes in the high register, she is very selective in the Turandots she is offered. Soprano Tamara Wilson will perform the title role of Puccini’s Turandot for the Houston Grand Opera arrayed in distinctive white face and wearing a bold red dress - both the vision of director/set and lighting designer Robert Wilson.

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