Pittsburgh’s Resonance Works has announced its 2023-24 season. The season opens with Pauline Viardot’s “Cinderella” at the Studio at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, Carnegie. Soprano Emily Pulley directs the production and stars as the Fairy Godmother/Viardot. Shannon Jennings and Donovan Elliot Smith star as Cinderella and Prince Charming alongside Katy Lindhart as sassy stepsister Maguelonne and {…}
Resonance Works has added a fifth production to close out the organization’s 10th anniversary season. The company will present Verdi’s “Macbeth” on May 18 and 20 at the Charity Randall Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland. “Macbeth” launched the company in 2013 and this season will be performed in a new essentialist production directed by Frances Rabalais, an alum {…}
Resonance Works’ tenth anniversary season will continue with Bach’s Mass in B Minor. The work will be performed by sopranos Katy Shackleton Williams, Charlene Canty, Amelia D’Arcy, and Lara Lynn McGill, mezzo-sopranos Timothi Williams and Thespina Christulides, tenor Javier Abreu, and bass-baritone Matthew Scollin. In a statement, Maria Sensi Sellner, Resonance Works’ Artistic and General Director said, “Although the complete {…}
Resonance Works opens the second half of its tenth anniversary season with “To Breathe Free.” The program embodies this sense of renewal with a reprise of Aaron Copland’s beloved Appalachian Spring, Lyric for Strings by George Walker, a poignant new work by Caroline Shaw, and a commission by powerhouse composer Gilda Lyons. In a statement says Maria Sensi Sellner, Resonance {…}
Pittsburgh’s Resonance Works has announced its programming for December, including holiday classics and a world premiere. The company will present “Amahl and the Night Visitors” after a two-year hiatus. The work is a beloved tale of hope and generosity that tells the story of a young boy, Amahl, his Mother, and their life-changing encounter with three mysterious strangers on their {…}
Resonance Works has announced its 10th season featuring premieres. The Pittsburgh season opens with the premiere of Jorge Sosa and Cerise Lim Jacobs’ contemporary opera, “I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams.” Resonance Works alum mezzo-soprano Maria Dominique Lopez and soprano Helen Zhibing Huang will star. The Resonance Works production will be directed by Estefanía Fadul. Performance Dates: Oct. {…}
The Decameron Opera Coalition will present “DOC Happy Hour: Librettists in Conversation” on Nov. 20, 2020 at 6 p.m. EST. The project featured collaborations between Resonance Works (Pittsburgh); Lyric Opera of the North (Duluth); UrbanArias (Washington DC); Bare Opera (New York City); Opera in the Heights (Houston); Chicago Fringe Opera; Milwaukee Opera Theatre; Fargo-Moorhead Opera; An Opera Theatre (Minneapolis); and {…}
(Credit: Frances Marshall) In 1353, a few years after the Black Death raged in Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio finished “The Decameron,” 100 stories told by seven women and three men holed up in a countryside villa as they awaited the passing of the plague. It’s a classic of literature, many times bawdy, sometimes tragic, and extremely apropos considering our present-day pandemic. {…}
On Oct. 23 and 25, Resonance Works will open its 2020-2021 season with “I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams” at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh’s North Side. The work will be a collaboration between composer Jorge Sosa and creator and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs and will champion the struggles of immigrants and the often overlooked complexities of {…}
The Resonance Chamber Orchestra and Chorus will present “…of Dark and Bright” on March 21 and 22, 2020 at Levy Halll of the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The concert will showcase Caroline Shaw’s her choral piece “To the Hands,” Kaija Saariaho’s “Changing Light,” and Missy Mazzoli’s “Dark with Excessive Bright.” Shaw’s piece, which was commissioned in 2016 by {…}
Resonance Works is set to perform Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” on Dec. 20 and 22, 2019. The new, fully-staged production at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh’s North Side will include festive and virtuosic music by Jessie Montgomery, Jennifer Higdon, Cécile Chaminade, and Nancy Galbraith. The cast will include mezzo-soprano Olga Perez Flora as Amahl’s Mother, Emmanuel Tsao as {…}