Saturday, June 28, 2025
Howard Shore’s Brilliant Score Given Remarkable Interpretation Before Capacity Audience By GEORGE B PAROUS Live-to-film symphony concerts are a unique and exacting fusion of the cinematic …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2025
Bronfman Plays Beethoven By GEORGE B. PAROUS As is usually the case during the remnants of a Friday evening rush hour, traffic conditions in the immediate vicinity of Heinz Hall yesterday we…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2025
Dynamic Cast and Orchestra Wraps 12th Season With Another Win This Weekend By George B. Parous I had the pleasure last evening of being on hand at the Charity Randall Theater for the final, …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
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 fi…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2025
Season Finale Opens Saturday Under ‘Veil of Mystery‘ And it doesn’t matter which of the three endings we see and hear – we’ll never tell. But we can always count on Chris Cox, Dire…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2025
Huge Crowd on Hand for First Night of “Virtual Reality” Take on Puccini Classic By George B. Parous Whether it was a love of Puccini’s music, curiosity about the new production, or bot…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Melanie Bacaling, Stage Director, Discusses Production Saturday evening, March 22, Pittsburgh Opera will give this season’s first performance of Puccini’s classic Madama Butterfly. In th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2025
Ensemble is Presenting a Powerfully Musical Weekend By George B. Parous As is always the case with a Resonance Works concert, a program well thought out and then some is being presented by t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
Company’s 87th Season Will Be an Eclectic Array of Works and Venues It’s never too early to plan operas on the horizon, and Pittsburgh Opera today announced its offerings for the 2025-26…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
Simon’s “Four Black American Dances” Make A Powerful Impression By George B. Parous Valentine’s Day, the program, the guest soloist, the conductor, or any combination of the four bro…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2025
“Baroque” Rarity is Being Presented With Powerful Vocal Cast in Effective Staging By George B. Parous Pittsburgh Opera gave the second performance of Joseph Hadyn’s Armida last evening…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2025
Company Will Mount New Production With Lauryn Davis Singing the Title Role This Saturday, January 25, at the CAPA Theater, Pittsburgh Opera will present the first local performance of Joseph…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 11, 2025
Program of Debussy, Sibelius, Prokofiev & Sigfúsdóttir Works Given in a Manner Recognized By Music Lovers as a Rare and Special Event By GEORGE B. PAROUS Classical music lovers know, d…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2024
Classic Oratorio Receives an Outstanding Performance By George B. Parous The usual elements surrounding the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and a performance of George Frideric Handёl’s tim…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 04:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2024
Somber Program for a Wintry Night By George B. Parous A program of curiously somber works, so close to the holiday season, was offered at Heinz Hall last evening, and for those braving the c…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2024
Melodious, Family-Friendly Phantasmagoria Charms Large Audience By GEORGE B. PAROUS Resonance Works gave the first of two performances of Rachel Portman’s charming The Little Prince last e…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2024
Grand Performances by Singers, Orchestra, Chorus, Acrobats and More By GEORGE B PAROUS A good-sized crowd was on hand at the Benedum last night, when Pittsburgh Opera gave the first performa…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2024
An Interview with Caitlin Gotimer Who Returns as Nedda in Pagliacci Those who remember her dynamic performances as a Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera will be more than pleased to look f…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2024
Conductor Christoph Eschenbach Returns to Lead an Attractive Program By George B. Parous Friday night Ray Chen, the “violinist and online personality,” returned to Pittsburgh and deliver…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:29PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
Large Assemblage Applauds an Almost Exclusively George Friederic Handel Program By GEORGE B. PAROUS We have said before that Chatham Baroque consistently offers attractive programs, whether …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2024
Outstanding Performance of Tried and True Standard by Giacomo Puccini Shows the Composer and Company at Their Best By GEORGE B. PAROUS Pittsburgh Opera opened their new season last night at …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2024
New Resident Artist Speaks of Upcoming Season Opener – and Himself Saturday, October 5, 2024, marks the season opener of Pittsburgh Opera, with Puccini’s ever-popular, always exciting To…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:54PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
Presents Debut of Its Reson8 Vocal Octet in Eclectic Program By GEORGE B. PAROUS Sunday afternoon at the Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside, marked the debut of a Resonance Works first – …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2024
Ensemble’s Performance of Operatic Rarity May Be Their Best to Date By GEORGE B. PAROUS This weekend Resonance Works gave two performances of Gioachino Rossini’s romantic rarity, La donn…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2024
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra End Season on a Remarkably High Note By GEORGE B. PAROUS The most important detail of the concert first: last night’s program will have…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
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 pia…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
The Mendelssohn Choir, Soloists and Two Commissioned World Premières Add to What May Be the Most Remarkable Concert of the Season By GEORGE B. PAROUS Routinely, Manfred Honeck and the Pitts…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
“In 1943, the National Negro Opera Company is set to perform on a floating barge to evade racially-segregated venues,” the opera’s program notes tell us. “But when bad weather threat…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:42PM[SHARE]Powerful Program Thrills Audience and Scores Another Success for PSO By GEORGE B. PAROUS Everything was thrillingly perfect at Heinz Hall last evening. That about sums it up. But a few more …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2024
Hilary Hahn Bright Particular Star in a Night Full of Them Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continued its BNY Mellon Grand Classics series last evening with the first performance of a truly gra…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2024
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…
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