Sunday, July 28, 2019
Pittsburgh Festival Opera is wrapping its summer season with Scandals and Schicchi, and its premiere last evening was received enthusiastically by a pleased and cheering crowd. It’s import…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2019
The first performance of Wagner’s epic The Valkyrie was given last night by Pittsburgh Festival Opera in the Falk Auditorium at Winchester Thurston – an abbreviated, spliced version t…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2019
The Love of Danae (Die Liebe der Danae), an opera in three acts from the later years of Richard Strauss’ long and illustrious career, was presented last night as the opening performance of…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2019
For the final work of its 80th season, Pittsburgh Opera is presenting Chuck Hudson’s novel “Hollywood” spin on Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, and its first performance last night delighte…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2019
A large and vivacious crowd filled most of the Benedum last night for the first performance of Pittsburgh Opera’s La bohème, and was treated to a production that dazzled in all particular…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2019
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first local performance of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied last evening, and about as many people as could fit into the company’s George R. White Studio were taken o…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 10:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2019
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…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 09:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
Before the curtain went up on Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel last night, Christopher Hahn, General Director of Pittsburgh Opera, walked to a corner of the stage and with digni…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 7, 2018
Pittsburgh Opera launched its 80th season last night in truly grand style, with probably the best staged and sung performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly seen and heard in decades of “…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
PNME Theatre of Music concluded its summer this weekend with well-attended performances of The Gray Cat and the Flounder. Based on a true story (the life of Bernadette Gabrielly Callery, the…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
Pittsburgh Festival Opera presented the local premiere of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Arabella Friday night, in the company’s ongoing commitment to give performances of …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
It was with slight trepidation that a hardcore devotee of Richard Wagner sat down last night and waited for the first performance of Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s version of his Rhinegold (D…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2018
If one were to compile a list of five operatic warhorses most likely to survive a make-over, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème would easily place, if not take the number one spot. Pittsburgh Fe…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2018
PNME Theater of Music performances start this weekend, and judging from the final rehearsal last night, Friday and Saturday evenings at City Theatre this month will be filled with the same …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2018
Resonance Works gave the first of two performances of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka last night, and a fair-sized audience heard the work, or most of it, for the first time in Pittsburgh, wel…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2018
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first of four performances of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love last night, and a large audience seemed to be so taken with the “potion” offered that the applaus…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 07:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
The local premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick was presented by Pittsburgh Opera at the Benedum last night, and was greeted with great and deserved enthusiasm by an audience…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2018
The Pittsburgh Opera world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s Ashes & Snow last evening offered a number of novelties aside from being the first ever performance of the work. Operas featur…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
A fair sized and attentive audience witnessed the second performance of Jeremy Howard Beck’s The Long Walk last night at the CAPA Theater. Considering the intensity of the subject matter a…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 03:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 5, 2017
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first performance of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro last night, and it was one of those rare occasions when a bit of magic mixed with the music in the air. The c…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2017
Pittsburgh Opera inaugurated its 79th season last night with an overall brilliant performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. The opera is a perennial favorite, and deservedly so. Puccini penn…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2017
Pittsburgh Festival Opera continues to make good on its promise of producing Richard Strauss rarities, and for the fourth consecutive summer has revived one of the composer’s lesser known …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 15, 2017
Pittsburgh Festival Opera gave the first of three performances of Händel’s Xerxes last night, and it was a delightfully rare opportunity to hear this seldom performed “Baroque” music.…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2017
Stephen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd has been entertaining audiences for nearly forty years, and last night’s performance of the work by Pittsburgh Festival Opera did mu…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
Last night was an auspicious collection of “firsts” – Pittsburgh Festival Opera presented its first performance of the summer under their re-branded company name, and the opera chosen …
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
Undercroft Opera is performing a Giacomo Puccini “rarity” this weekend at Carlow University’s Antonian Theatre – La Rondine (“The Swallow”), which hasn’t been heard locally sin…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
Resonance Works, collaborating with the University of Pittsburgh Department of Theater Arts, gave the first of two performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, last night, at th…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
It was truly a “gala” occasion in the long history of Pittsburgh Opera, at the Benedum last evening, when the much publicized and widely heralded The Summer King – the company’s firs…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was presented for the first time this season Saturday night at the Benedum, and a gratifyingly large crowd packed the auditorium to enjoy a truly r…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
There was an elbow-to-elbow crowd on hand in the George R. White Opera Studio at Pittsburgh Opera Headquarters last night for the Pennsylvania premiere of As One, including the composer, Lau…
SOURCE: onstagepittsburgh.com at 08:32PM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2017
Pittsburgh Opera’s Resident Artist Program unveiled its first production of the season last night at the CAPA Theater – Georg Frideric Händel’s largely neglected Richard the Lionheart…
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