“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 03:18PMThis 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 02:02PMBenazir 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 08:00AMHow did the different Pittsburgh musical groups measure up this weekend?
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:05PMOne 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 08:15AMThe Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is seeking community voices to weigh in on how to best connect with local neighborhoods.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:51PMTo close its 43rd season, PNME provided high-fidelity headphones to everyone in a packed theater on the South Side.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:37AMThe PSO is working to develop relationships with Pittsburgh communities and artists without coming off as patronizing.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMPittsburgh 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 12:04PMAmong 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 02:16PMAn 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 09:06PMThe 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 01:30PMWould you attend the symphony if it staged a production preaching creationism? Preaching evolution?
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:05PM“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 12:24PMPittsburgh Opera began rehearsing for their opening performance three weeks ago. But what of the children?
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