Obituary: 'You need to sing with love': Opera singer Mildred Miller Posvar became teacher and company founder by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The former opera star founded what is now Pittsburgh Festival Opera, a spunky organization dedicated to promoting young singers.

Review: Pittsburgh Festival Opera season opens with a strong ‘Love of Danae’ by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Opera production of Puccini's 'La Boheme' captures the spirit of the novel by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD hits movie theaters Saturday by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

While smaller opera companies tend to stick to the tried and true, the Met reaches out with new works that smaller companies consider risky.

Tito Capobianco, longtime Pittsburgh Opera director, dies at 87 by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The 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.

The 'Ring' begins -- Pittsburgh Festival Opera opens Wagner's cycle with 'Rhinegold' by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh 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…

Pittsburgh Opera: On the sunny side with Donizetti's 'The Elixir of Love' by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Poor Adina! The heroine of Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore” (The Elixir of Love) must be the most neglected woman in opera.

Preview: Opera 'The Long Walk' shines a spotlight on PTSD by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Preview: Things get personal in 'Intermezzo,' a Pennsylvania premiere by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peacefully.”

Review: Pittsburgh Festival Opera's 'A Gathering of Sons' is powerful music theater by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lockdown, 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�…

Opera Theater offers rare chance to see Strauss' minor masterpiece 'The Silent Woman' by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Late in his life, composer Richard Strauss said “The Silent Woman” was his beloved opera that was “clapped into a concentration camp.”

Music Preview: Recalling the American premiere of Stravinsky’s magnificent 'The Rake’s Progress' by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The 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…

Opera preview: For Pittsburgh Opera's 'Cosi fan tutte,' Sir Thomas Allen dons two hats by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The 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…