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Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘La Traviata’ Another Win For the Company
Singers, Orchestra, Chorus and Staging as Good as It Gets By GEORGE B. PAROUS It was a grand and large audience that heard and saw a spectacular performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata last evening at the Benedum. The time-worn… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘La Traviata’ Opens Saturday
Leah Heater, mezzo-soprano, speaks of the opera and a bit of herself Recently, Chris Cox, Director of Marketing and Communications for Pittsburgh Opera, took time out of his hectic schedule to interview, a former Resident Artist, Leah Heater, exclusively for… Read More ›
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Yunchan Lim Fearlessly Conquers Large Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Audience
Pablo Heras-Casado Conducts Dynamic Concert Fit for the City’s Musical Annals Record Books By GEORGE B PAROUS “I made up my mind that I will live my life only for the sake of music, and I decided that I will… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Opera Announces 2024-25 Lineup
86th Season Slightly Curtailed But Attractive Pittsburgh Opera today announced the lineup for their upcoming 2024-25 season, one that differs in some respects from recent offerings, but one that includes four tried and trues – one of which is a… Read More ›
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Review: Chatham Baroque Hosts Apollo’s Fire, Album Release Concert
Baroque Orchestra’s “Violin Fantasy” a Mesmerizing Program of 17th Century Gems By George B. Parous A very large crowd packed into the Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside yesterday afternoon, Sunday, February 18th, to hear and see Chatham Baroque host a… Read More ›
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Review: Pittsburgh Opera Adds ‘Proving Up’ to its List of Season’s Successes
By GEORGE B. PAROUS Last evening Pittsburgh Opera continued their season with the first night of Missy Mazzoli’s chamber opera, Proving Up. With a libretto by Royce Vavrek, adapted from a short story by Karen Russell, the 2018 opera has… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Opera’s Fran Daniel Laucerica on ‘Proving Up’
Resident Artist Tenor Speaks of Upcoming Production Next Saturday, February 17, 2024, marks the first production by Pittsburgh Opera of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Proving Up, a work which has been called “Harrowing…powerful… a true opera of our time”… Read More ›
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Resonance Works Wins Another Success with ‘This Love Between Us’
Enthusiastically Received at Trinity Cathedral Last Night; Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church for Sunday Matinee By George B. Parous “The Lamps may be different, but the Light is the same.” This Love Between Us, the characteristically unique concert Resonance Works is… Read More ›
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Chatham Baroque Completes Weekend “Tour” of Unique, Highly Enjoyable Program
“Through the Wood, Laddie” – Music of Baroque Scotland and Acadia By George B. Parous Yesterday afternoon’s weather posed no hindrance for the very large crowd of music lovers that filled Hicks Memorial Chapel at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. They… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Opera’s Production of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ Continues its Run
Two More Performances of Classic Rarity Remain to Be Given at the CAPA By GEORGE B. PAROUS Pittsburgh Opera is currently giving its production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, a work first heard at the Paris Opéra on… Read More ›
