Monday, November 11, 2019
“I have to be the music for every moment, every gesture, every bit of eye contact,” said Manfred Honeck of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:29AMMonday, November 4, 2019
Pittsburgh has plenty of concert halls that seat 650 or fewer, and several spaces that seat 1,300 or more. But there’s nothing in between.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMFriday, October 25, 2019
PBT has announced a Live Music Appeal to shore up funding to continue the current amount of live music for the next 50 years.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMMonday, October 14, 2019
Next time you’re in Heinz, remember there are acoustic shadows under the balcony, and sometimes the cheap seats are the best in the house.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:10AMMonday, September 16, 2019
Exhibits range from interactive dance and music performances to technology themed murals and sculptures and virtual reality games.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Yes, arts coverage is shrinking. But it’s evolving, not declining. Here’s the plan.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMMonday, July 15, 2019
Onstage are Purple Twirling Kitty, Friendly Frank the Weather Porpoise and Hildegard Hummingbird. Meet the cast Of Mister Rogers’ Operas.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMSunday, February 24, 2019
Both shows hinged on the quality of the singers. The opera delivered. “Phantom” did not. Please put down the pitchforks.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:57PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Composer Tan Dun spent two years researching lost musical manuscripts from the Dunhuang Library Cave before creating his “Buddha Passion.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMSunday, February 10, 2019
Fitzgerald wrote “The Great Gatsby” in 1925, when jazz was catching on in Paris and the foxtrot and tango were taking the U.S. by storm.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:13PMThursday, February 7, 2019
Next season includes “The Last American Hammer,” a satirical treatment of a one-man militia raging against the tyranny of the government.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
“AfterWARds” shortens a full-length opera to about 80 minutes and transforms the story into a tale about refugees. It doesn’t really work.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:18PMThursday, December 13, 2018
This week “The Hip Hop Nutcracker” came to the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh for a two-night, high-energy celebration of the holiday spirit.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:02PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Benazir Bhutto was the first woman to be elected prime minister of Pakistan in 1988. Pittsburgh Opera is developing an opera about her life.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMSunday, October 21, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
One of opera’s greatest treasures speaks about the quality of contemporary film music and her recent melodies on the big screen.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:15AMThursday, August 2, 2018
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is seeking community voices to weigh in on how to best connect with local neighborhoods.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:51PMSaturday, July 28, 2018
To close its 43rd season, PNME provided high-fidelity headphones to everyone in a packed theater on the South Side.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:37AMThursday, July 26, 2018
The PSO is working to develop relationships with Pittsburgh communities and artists without coming off as patronizing.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMSunday, July 22, 2018
Pittsburgh Festival Opera stages a rare Strauss opera each year. This year’s offering, “Arabella,” has an unfinished libretto. It shows.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:04PMSunday, April 22, 2018
Among the zanier adaptations of the medieval romance story of Tristan and Isolde, Donizetti’s opera buffa (read: screwball opera) “L’elisir d’amore” (”The Elixir of Love”) is p…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:16PMSunday, March 18, 2018
An epic that pits a crew of richly outsized personalities against nature and the unknown, “Moby-Dick” provides ample mystic and drama for an operatic setting.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:06PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has announced soul and funk wizard Lee Fields & The Expressions as headliner for the Highmark First Night Pittsburgh’s New Year’s Eve Celebration.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:30PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Would you attend the symphony if it staged a production preaching creationism? Preaching evolution?
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:05PMFriday, November 10, 2017
“Veterans Day only comes once a year, but we like to think of every day as Veterans Day,” said Al Maag, chief marketing officer of the Veteran Tickets Foundation, which has distributed m…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:24PMSunday, October 1, 2017
Pittsburgh Opera began rehearsing for their opening performance three weeks ago. But what of the children?
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:48PM 
