175 stories by "George B Parous"
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first local performance of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied last evening, and about as many people as could fit into the company’s George R. White Studio were taken o…
Mozart was in the air last night at the CAPA Theater, when Pittsburgh Opera presented the first of four performances of afterWARds, the composer’s monumental Idomeneo, “re-imagined” by…
Before the curtain went up on Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel last night, Christopher Hahn, General Director of Pittsburgh Opera, walked to a corner of the stage and with digni…
Pittsburgh Opera launched its 80th season last night in truly grand style, with probably the best staged and sung performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly seen and heard in decades of “…
PNME Theatre of Music concluded its summer this weekend with well-attended performances of The Gray Cat and the Flounder. Based on a true story (the life of Bernadette Gabrielly Callery, the…
Pittsburgh Festival Opera presented the local premiere of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Arabella Friday night, in the company’s ongoing commitment to give performances of …
It was with slight trepidation that a hardcore devotee of Richard Wagner sat down last night and waited for the first performance of Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s version of his Rhinegold (D…
If one were to compile a list of five operatic warhorses most likely to survive a make-over, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème would easily place, if not take the number one spot. Pittsburgh Fe…
PNME Theater of Music performances start this weekend, and judging from the final rehearsal last night, Friday and Saturday evenings at City Theatre this month will be filled with the same �…
Resonance Works gave the first of two performances of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka last night, and a fair-sized audience heard the work, or most of it, for the first time in Pittsburgh, wel…
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first of four performances of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love last night, and a large audience seemed to be so taken with the “potion” offered that the applaus…
The local premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick was presented by Pittsburgh Opera at the Benedum last night, and was greeted with great and deserved enthusiasm by an audience…
The Pittsburgh Opera world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s Ashes & Snow last evening offered a number of novelties aside from being the first ever performance of the work. Operas featur…
A fair sized and attentive audience witnessed the second performance of Jeremy Howard Beck’s The Long Walk last night at the CAPA Theater. Considering the intensity of the subject matter a…
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first performance of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro last night, and it was one of those rare occasions when a bit of magic mixed with the music in the air. The c…
Pittsburgh Opera inaugurated its 79th season last night with an overall brilliant performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. The opera is a perennial favorite, and deservedly so. Puccini penn…
Pittsburgh Festival Opera continues to make good on its promise of producing Richard Strauss rarities, and for the fourth consecutive summer has revived one of the composer’s lesser known …
Pittsburgh Festival Opera gave the first of three performances of Händel’s Xerxes last night, and it was a delightfully rare opportunity to hear this seldom performed “Baroque” music.…
Stephen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd has been entertaining audiences for nearly forty years, and last night’s performance of the work by Pittsburgh Festival Opera did mu…
Last night was an auspicious collection of “firsts” – Pittsburgh Festival Opera presented its first performance of the summer under their re-branded company name, and the opera chosen …
Undercroft Opera is performing a Giacomo Puccini “rarity” this weekend at Carlow University’s Antonian Theatre – La Rondine (“The Swallow”), which hasn’t been heard locally sin…
Resonance Works, collaborating with the University of Pittsburgh Department of Theater Arts, gave the first of two performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, last night, at th…
It was truly a “gala” occasion in the long history of Pittsburgh Opera, at the Benedum last evening, when the much publicized and widely heralded The Summer King – the company’s firs…
Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was presented for the first time this season Saturday night at the Benedum, and a gratifyingly large crowd packed the auditorium to enjoy a truly r…
There was an elbow-to-elbow crowd on hand in the George R. White Opera Studio at Pittsburgh Opera Headquarters last night for the Pennsylvania premiere of As One, including the composer, Lau…
