Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival

A 12-year stint in New York helped Estes expand her lyric skills to include writing and directing. Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Houston s Lone Star Lyric (year-round cabaret concert series and summer opera festival, lonestarlyric.org,) Estes maintains her guiding principal, what do I want to sing and how many will it take to carry me off stage? In only 17 years, LSL has featured more than 400 of Houston s finest singers producing 35 operas, operettas and musicals mining the gems of the chamber-sized lyric theater repertoire. Not satisfied with just a summer festival, she created and produces LSL s wildly popular, Lyric Cabaret, a year-round jazz cabaret series featuring music from the Great American Songbook.