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 ›
Dramady with Operatic Interludes Opens at the Byham By George B. Parous The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, as is widely known by now, is a play rather than an opera. There certainly is piano-accompanied singing, but about two thirds… 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 ›
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 Offers a Vivacious Production of Old Classic By GEORGE B. PAROUS Despite miserable weather and having a star baritone on the sick list, Pittsburgh Opera attracted a good-sized audience to a brilliant performance of The Barber of Seville… Read More ›
Entire Cast & Bulk of Production Crew in Pittsburgh Opera Debuts, Deliver Powerful Drama Set to Riveting Music By George B. Parous First things first – try to get tickets to Pittsburgh Opera’s We Shall Not Be Moved while they’re… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Opera’s production of Il Trovatore, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, continues at the Benedum Center March 28, 31 and April 2. (Images: David Bachman Photography for Pittsburgh Opera) Melodious Old Standard Wows Big Audience for the… Read More ›
Riveting Social Justice Opera Packs a Wallop By George B. Parous Pittsburgh Opera is ending its 2021-’22 season with performances of Blue, and the work received its local premiere Saturday night, April 23, at the August Wilson African American… 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 ›
