Today is Sunday, December 22, 2024 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
The former opera star founded what is now Pittsburgh Festival Opera, a spunky organization dedicated to promoting young singers.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:05AMWhile smaller opera companies tend to stick to the tried and true, the Met reaches out with new works that smaller companies consider risky.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMThe Argentina native took the Pittsburgh Opera from a small company to the powerhouse it is today with his natural skill as a fundraiser and visionary.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:47PMPittsburgh Festival Opera comes to life every summer with repertory not likely to be tackled by mainstream-oriented Pittsburgh Opera. This city’s smaller company’s ongoing projects inclu…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:48PMPoor Adina! The heroine of Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore” (The Elixir of Love) must be the most neglected woman in opera.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:25PM“Thou and I are too wise to woo peacefully.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:11PMLockdown, a sadistic white policeman, shoots an innocent young black man named Victor, essentially because he can. Before leaving the scene, he takes a bag of yellow “magic” from Victor�…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:31AMLate in his life, composer Richard Strauss said “The Silent Woman” was his beloved opera that was “clapped into a concentration camp.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:57AMThe Pittsburgh Opera production of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” the neoclassical opera by Igor Stravinsky, opens this weekend at the Benedum Center. That opera has become a st…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe three operas that Mozart wrote to librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte are unique, not just in the history of opera but of all musical theater. Couched in the traditional form of opera buffa (I…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM
