Stephen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd has been entertaining audiences for nearly forty years, and last night’s performance of the work by Pittsburgh Festival Opera did much to explain the show’s enduring popularity. In Sondheim’s creation of the musical,… Read More ›
Falk Auditorium
“If I Loved You…” – Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s New Revue
In keeping with its long, distinguished and successful history of world premieres and making old music new again, Pittsburgh Festival Opera this summer is producing If I Loved You… – a revue featuring the best of Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s prolific… Read More ›
Everything Old is New Again – Pittsburgh Festival Opera Coming Soon!
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the ambitious Opera Theater of Pittsburgh has rebranded as “Pittsburgh Festival Opera,” and will continue to offer musical innovations and rarities that have been steadily growing in quality over the past few summers. This summer’s… Read More ›
The Silent Woman
Richard Strauss’ rarely heard Die schweigsame Frau (“The Silent Woman”), received the first of two performances at the Falk Auditorium of Winchester Thurston last night, as Opera Theater of Pittsburgh continues its mission of presenting the famous composer’s lesser known… Read More ›
Dimitrie Lazich and “The Silent Woman”
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dimitrie Lazich about this year’s “SummerFest.” The gifted young baritone has proven to be a comic and vocal delight as the slightly buffoonish “Gangster,” who clearly takes his lead from the equally… Read More ›
Julius Caesar
Last night Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s “SummerFest” gave the first of three performances of Georg Friedrich Händel’s Giulio Cesare, presented in English, as is customary with the company, as Julius Caesar. The first thing said before an analysis of the… Read More ›
Kiss Me, Kate
[the_ad id=”2996″] There was much that was “new” in the air last night, when Opera Theater of Pittsburgh’s “SummerFest” presented Cole Porter’s 1949 Broadway hit, Kiss Me, Kate – some new singers (one making his professional debut in a lead… Read More ›