Defying the odds, a top Pittsburgh ballerina leaps back onstage with a new hip by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Review: An opera-singing barber bartends and brokers marriage on stage in a brilliant 'Barber of Seville' by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Shenanigans ensue, set to music by Rossini that’s been burned into the public consciousness through cartoons like “Bugs Bunny.”  

Pittsburgh Opera opens its season with the comedic 'Barber of Seville,' one of the most-performed operas in history by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

After years of high turnover, arts nonprofits are raising staff wages to compete by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Opera's new board chair is a 'numbers guy' turned opera champion by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

10 big classical music and dance events in the fall by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Executive director and board chair signal a new era at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

DNAWORKS looks to create a unique identity in Fort Worth and Pittsburgh by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Quantum Theatre announces new executive director as subscriptions rise by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland closed for renovations until 2024 by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Cuts in Chautauqua's opera and arts programs provoke donor strike and high drama by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Playhouse appoints new managing and artistic director by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A Pittsburgh opera company is reinventing itself in the wake of poor attendance and financial turmoil by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh’s arts landscape is struggling to stabilize in the wake of the pandemic and low attendance.

Adapting to survive: Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, one of the oldest in the country, launches its final summer festival Friday by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble is taking drastic steps to insure its future.

Key funding: Pittsburgh’s music groups must play to foundations’ tunes to survive by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh symphony music donate tickets foundations arts funding diversity

Review: At the Pittsburgh Symphony, new music about steel forging is wonderfully cinematic — later, the ballet joins for a stunning 'Bolero' by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Symphony’s latest premiere was a musical depiction of the steel-making process.

Pittsburgh's symphony and ballet partner to bring Ravel's brief, maddening 'Bolero' to life by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Composer Maurice Ravel’s music was popular in his lifetime, but audiences grew came to associate him primarily with one tune: “Bolero.”

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 1,200 students have a new dean by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is adding a new position to allow for greater focus on the school’s pre-professional offerings.

NEA awards $285,000 in grants to Pittsburgh arts organizations by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Review: When a small opera company stages 'Macbeth,' the witches crackle by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Concentrating resources on the musicians rather than attempting to fully stage a production could help improve quality.

Catch these classical music and dance events all summer around Pittsburgh by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Review: After an opera about America's failings, Pittsburgh police disarm a man with a knife by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Opera's season finale explores political resonances from the 1985 MOVE bombing by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“We Shall Not Be Moved” originally premiered in 2017 is set in North Philadelphia in the abandoned headquarters of the MOVE organization.

Review: An hourlong, brilliantly meta, must-see show is live at Pittsburgh Opera by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The underbelly of the internet remains a dark place... In 2017, the Russian Duma criminalized the creation of pro-suicide groups.

Two Russians livestreamed a standoff with police in 2016, and now it's an opera. Sort of by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“In opera, if we end up telling new stories in old ways we haven’t gotten ourselves much farther down the road.”

4 openings, 800 young applicants: The Pittsburgh Ballet holds grueling open auditions by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It was audition day at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, which set a recent record with the “Nutcracker,” with around 32,000 tickets sold.

Review: A smart new series at the symphony seeks to introduce listeners to classical music — it needs polish by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

This wasn’t a typical concert, where listeners sit in silence. It was more interactive — at times for better and at times for worse.

New play 'Perseverance' captures jeweler's memories of the Holocaust and new life in Pittsburgh by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the 1970s, Melvin Goldman bought a tape recorder and talked through his memories of his early life and the Holocaust...

A new immersive play opening in Pittsburgh throws shareholders on the devil's mercies by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The play sounds a bit like a cross between a murder mystery, an art installation and a reality TV show.

Review: Pittsburgh Opera's latest is a must-see, on par with cult classics by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It’s a bit like if Shakespeare drafted a mistaken identity plot and threw in some infanticide on a ghastly whim.

Review: The Pittsburgh Symphony married music and religious tradition — it was a touch unsettling by Jeremy Reynolds / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mozart didn’t finish the “Requiem” before his death at the age of 35.