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Houston Grand Opera’s latest world premiere, Ricky Ian Gordon’s “The House Without a Christmas Tree,” which opened on Thursday, is a holiday tale that celebrates the victory of the sweet over the bitter. The fact that it happened at all is a similar victory. When Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston in August, the Wortham Theater Center, HGO’s home, was catastrophically flooded. To salvage the seven-opera season, Perryn Leech, HGO’s managing director, came up with a plan for an alternative performance space in the…