Monday, January 8, 2018
The night before the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance’s FanFest last month, Thomas Leturgey couldn’t sleep.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:00AMThursday, August 24, 2017
Evan Smith parks his car underneath the Bloomfield Bridge, on a slice of asphalt between a basketball court and a baseball field. His gray Honda CR-V seems more fitting for harried parents t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:02AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble was an early adopter — one might say a pioneer — of a multisensory, multimedia approach to performance that is becoming the norm among classical music o…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Point Counterpoint II — Pittsburgh’s weird, Louis Kahn-designed concert boat — has suitors.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:45PMFriday, July 21, 2017
Michele Fabrizi was leafing through a program book at a Pittsburgh Opera show in February when two advertisements caught her eye.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:02AMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Opera companies in Pittsburgh don’t generally build their productions around an individual singer.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:45PMThursday, July 6, 2017
Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison are friends. Really. They only play enemies on TV.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, June 15, 2017
When Pittsburgh Festival Opera was looking to develop an opera about social justice and race, Jonathan Eaton first looked outward, and then he turned inward.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Friday, December 2, 2016
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Thursday, October 6, 2016
If you have been paying close attention to the Pittsburgh Opera calendar for the last five years, you may have noticed that the company has presented a Verdi piece as its first opera each se…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, September 18, 2016
You know the type. He is sitting down in a theater, attentively listening to a performance — a musical, an opera, a concert, anything. As the show starts to winds down, he prepares to stan…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSunday, June 26, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The paint on the house was peeling, the metal deck railing rusting. Were it not for the red diamond designs stamped onto the structure and a small descriptive placard in…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThursday, April 28, 2016
Sunday, February 14, 2016
In its 78th season, Pittsburgh Opera will make one of its most ambitious statements yet. The company will offer the first full production of Daniel Sonenberg’s “The Summer King,” an op…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Pittsburgh Opera will produce the 2018 world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s “Bhutto,” an opera about the former prime minister of Pakistan who was assassinated 2007.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:53PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Resonance Works | Pittsburgh is only halfway through its second full season, but one senses that the group expects to be around for a while.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:35PMFriday, September 18, 2015
During the intermission of “The Winter’s Tale,” two friends told me they were surprised: They hadn’t expected an opera.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:42PMSunday, August 16, 2015
The Metropolitan Opera in New York, the most significant opera company and the largest performing arts organization in the country, has opted not to use blackface on the title char…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
