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: 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 ›
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 ›
‘Denis & Katya’ Opens at Pittsburgh Opera’s Bitz Opera Factory
Stark Subject, a Disturbing Look at Internet Voyeurism in Our Digital Society By George B. Parous Denis & Katya is a chamber opera with a cast of two singers and two titular characters – but this one-act drama is by… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera Winding Up Season with First of Two Contemporary Works in May
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s ‘Denis & Katya’ Opens with Brandon Bell and Jazmine Olwalia Saturday, May 6th Pittsburgh Opera is ending its 2022-23 season with two back-to-back contemporary operas in May, with Denis & Katya being the first up… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera to have Inaugural Summer Camp in July 2023
The Camp, called Bravo Academy, is designed for high school students interested in opera and other performing arts. Participants will receive invaluable hands-on experience with leading industry professionals and performers. Each instructor is a specialist in their field, selected to offer… Read More ›
“In a Grove” Premieres at Pittsburgh Opera
Music For the Era of Truth Decay Runs Through March 3rd By George B. Parous In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, the human race may find that all operas sound and look like… Read More ›
REVIEW: Pittsburgh Opera’s “The Rose Elf”
Pittsburgh Opera’s The Rose Elf Wraps Successfully By George B.Parous Pittsburgh Opera finished the four-performance run of David Hertzberg‘s The Rose Elf with this afternoon’s matinee. Although the seating capacity of the George R. White Studio, in the renamed Bitz… Read More ›