Richard Strauss’ colossal Salome was the second of Pittsburgh Opera’s offerings last night, and an immense audience rose in a roar when the curtain dropped at the conclusion of the one-act German masterpiece. Major road closures and detours couldn’t stop… Read More ›
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La Traviata
Pittsburgh Opera’s 78th season opened Saturday night with the first of four performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s perennial La Traviata. First performed in Venice in 1853, the opera today holds its own as probably the most popular and frequently produced lyric… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera’s 78th Season Opens October 8 with Verdi’s “La Traviata”
To open its 78th season, Pittsburgh Opera will present the first of four performances of Verdi’s tuneful warhorse, La Traviata, on October 8, at 8:00 p.m. at the Benedum. The work is well known locally, having opened the 2004 and… Read More ›
The Rake’s Progress
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first of four performances of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress last night – the magnificently colorful and brilliantly effective David Hockney production marking the first time the opera has been heard in its entirety here –… Read More ›
A Word or Two from Pittsburgh Opera’s General Director, Christopher Hahn, on “The Rake’s Progress.”
Christopher Hahn, General Director of Pittsburgh Opera, was quite enthusiastic earlier this week when we discussed the company’s upcoming production of The Rake’s Progress, and I must say up front that I shared his enthusiasm. The work has long been… Read More ›
The Barber of Seville
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first of four performances of Gioachino Rossini’s perennial The Barber of Seville Saturday night. The work is probably the most enduring of the composer’s 39 operas, and anyone who has seen vintage Warner Brothers’ cartoons or… Read More ›
“27” (“Twenty-Seven”)
27 or Twenty-Seven (as in 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, the address at which Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas presided over their famous salon for many years in the earlier decades of the last century), received its first performance… Read More ›
Little Women
Judging from the full-dress rehearsal of Mark Adamo’s Little Women, at the CAPA Theater on Thursday night, there is every reason to believe that Pittsburgh Opera’s presentation of the work will enjoy the success it has achieved across America and… Read More ›
Così fan tutte
For its second production of the current season, Pittsburgh Opera brought out Mozart’s Così fan tutte last night before a fair-sized, appreciative gathering at the Benedum. The full title of the work, first performed in Vienna in January 1790, is… Read More ›