[Contains spoilers about the end of the show] Saturday evening, October 18th , Pittsburgh Opera will open this season with Puccini’s La Bohème, one of the most beloved and frequently performed operas in the world . Chris Cox, Director of… Read More ›
Season Closes with 1st Performances of Jennifer Higdon & Jerre Dye’s Take on a Real-life Art Heist, with three Alternate Endings By GEORGE B. PAROUS Saturday evening, the crowd that filled Pittsburgh Opera’s Bitz Studio in the Strip heard the… Read More ›
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 ›
Antony Walker and Sara Gartland the Brightest Stars in a Brilliant Cast By George B. Parous Pittsburgh Opera opened its 84th season Saturday evening, with a truly grand performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka. The libretto, by Jaroslav Kvapil, is said… Read More ›
Four New Resident Artists Will Debut in the Production, Opening Saturday, Sept. 17 By George B. Parous Beginning Saturday night, September 17, at the Benedum, and running the usual four performances, Pittsburgh Opera will provide the rare opportunity of hearing… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera is wrapping its season with an innovative spin on Handel’s Semele, a company first in more ways than one. The work, variously described as a musical drama, “after the manner of an oratorio,” and eventually an opera, was… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera Saturday evening gave the first of six performances of Handel’s Semele, a company first, and the baroque opera will bring to an end a season that’s been full of firsts, and has not much resembled the line-up… Read More ›
A large crowd at the Benedum last night got an equally large bang for its buck in a highly entertaining performance of Mozart’s perennial Don Giovanni – this time dressed in Krystine McIntyre’s snappy “film noir” production that… Read More ›
The curtain goes up on Pittsburgh Opera’s 81st season beginning next Saturday evening, October 12, with the first of four performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The production will be a “film noir” styled take, directed by Kristine… Read More ›
