Author Archives

• “Daughter of the Regiment” (La fille du régiment)

  By George B Parous on May 3, 2015

  Gaetano Donizetti’s opera-comique, La fille du régiment (offered up in English as “The Daughter of the Regiment”), received the first of four performances on Saturday evening, May 2. It is Pittsburgh Opera’s last production of the season, and last night’s… Read More ›

• Carmen

  By George B Parous on March 21, 2015

  Carmen, an opera in four acts, with music by the French composer Georges Bizet, is set to a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who used a novella by Prosper Mérimée as their inspiration. It was not particularly well received when… Read More ›

• Rodelinda

  By George B Parous on January 24, 2015

  Handel’s Rodelinda, another opera not heard in Pittsburgh for over twenty years, received the first performance of its current run at the intimate CAPA Theater on Saturday evening, January 24. Presented with a cast consisting of young Resident Artists of… Read More ›

• Otello

  By George B Parous on November 9, 2014

  Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello, not heard in Pittsburgh in over two decades, accomplished the rare feat of bringing a local audience to its feet for a very long and thunderous ovation, when it became the first of Pittsburgh Opera’s performances for… Read More ›

• “Ariadne on Naxos” (“Ariadne auf Naxos”)

  By George B Parous on July 19, 2014

  Pittsburgh music-lovers were out in full force at the Twentieth Century Club on Friday evening, July 18, when “SummerFest” gave them a taste of grand opera by a German composer – a treat they get only a couple of times… Read More ›