Pittsburgh Opera is set to present Bizet’s “Carmen.” The production was in the middle of rehearsals for its planned March 2020 performances when the COVID pandemic struck, forcing it to cancel. Now two years later “Carmen” will be making its long-awaited return to the Benedum Center. The opera will star Zanda Švēde in the title role alongside Scott Quinn as Don {…}
The Pittsburgh Opera has announced its 2021-22 season featuring two repertory staples and three modern masterpieces. Here is a look. Benedum Center Productions Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” will open the 2021-22 season with David Portillo as Tamino, Kathryn Bowden as Queen of the Night, Adelaide Boedecker as Pamina, Véronique Filloux as Papagena, and Tom McNichols as Sarastro. Antony Walker conducts. {…}
(Credit: Cory Weaver) The Pittsburgh Opera is set to present Bizet’s “Carmen.” The production by Garnett Bruce is set to star Aleks Romano in the title role in her Pittsburgh debut and Scott Quinn as Don José. The cast is rounded out by Michael Todd Simpson as Escamillo and Danielle Pastin as Micaëla. Timothy Myers conducts the opera, which NPR {…}
“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s Spanish-inspired masterpiece, was performed at the Festival d’arLyriqueue d’Aix-en-Provence’s 2017 season in an unconventional production. Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov’s has consigned the traditional Sevillan mantillas, toreros, and abrigos de luz to distant memory and, for the hugely popular opera’s return to Aix for the first time in 60 years, has fully reviewed the story to give it {…}
In today’s performance of “L’Amour de Loin,” the role of Jaufré will be sung by Michael Todd Simpson, replacing Eric Owens, who is ill. This season the baritone has performed at the Metropolitan Opera for the new production of Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” and returns as Escamillo in Bizet’s “Carmen.” He is also slated to sing at the Palm Beach Opera {…}
