The Last American Hammer (with music by Peter Hilliard and libretto by Matt Boresi) entertained a crowd about as large as the George R. White Opera Studio could accommodate last night, and the one-act mix of drama and satire… Read More ›
Glenn Lewis
Conductor Glenn Lewis on Pittsburgh Opera’s “The Last American Hammer”
Pittsburgh Opera’s “Second Stage Production,” always a sure sign that spring is around the corner, and this year Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi’s The Last American Hammer, will have its first performance Saturday evening, February 22, at the company’s Strip… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera’s “afterWARds” Opens at the CAPA
Mozart was in the air last night at the CAPA Theater, when Pittsburgh Opera presented the first of four performances of afterWARds, the composer’s monumental Idomeneo, “re-imagined” by David Paul. The overly-large and cumbersome work is an opera of the… Read More ›