HOUSTON, TX--Anthony Freud, Welsh National Opera's General Director for more than a decade, has been named the third General Director and the first Chief Executive Officer of Houston Grand Opera (HGO). Freud will assume leadership on March 6, 2006. The appointment was announced by Houston Grand Opera's Board President John S. Arnoldy and HGO's Vice President Donald W. Short at a press conference Thursday morning (July 14, 2005) in the Wortham Center.