Pittsburgh Opera has announced plans to rebroadcast its 2020-21 season via live stream starting this month. The company will present a production of “Semele” starring Aaron Couch, Véronique Filloux, Jeremy Harr, Madeline Ehlinger, Maine Therese Carmack, Yazid Gray, and Meghan DeWald. Streaming Dates: August 26 & 27, 2021 “Così fan tutte” starred Véronique Filloux, Jeremy Harr, Madeline Ehlinger, Maine Therese {…}
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. {…}
Leaders of several arts organizations in Pittsburgh have joined forces to create the Pittsburgh Arts Administrators of Color, an organization aimed at unifying people of color in administrative positions. The organization already started having monthly happy hours starting in late April and will engage further via Zoom before slowly transitioning to in-person get-togethers. The founders of the Pittsburgh Arts Administrators {…}
Pittsburgh Opera will present the first-ever Pittsburgh performances of Handel’s “Semele.” The opera will be presented at its headquarters in the Strip District from May 8 through 20. Stage Director Kristine McIntyre will bring the work to life in stylish Roaring Twenties Art Deco treatment. The Pittsburgh Opera will partner with Chatham Baroque for “Semele” and will have live, socially {…}
(Credit: Lee Paxton) The Richard King Mellon Foundation will donate $ 500,000 to help remodel the former House of the National Negro Opera Company in Homewood, which the National Trust for Historic Preservation recently named it one of the 11 most endangered historic sites in the U.S. The home, once the pride of Pittsburgh, is close to collapse, having been abandoned {…}
Pittsburgh Opera will present the first-ever Pittsburgh performances of “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.” The work will be presented at the Strip District from April 10 through 22 with a live, socially-distant audience at all six performances. Pittsburgh Opera is maintaining its successful COVID-19 safety protocols, including reduced seating capacity, mandatory mask-wearing, health screenings and temperature checks for all people entering the building, {…}
On March 26, 2021, Pittsburgh Opera will broadcast a free, virtual concert in celebration of women composers, titled “Women’s March.” The program will draw from over 900 years of music, from composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Alma Mahler, and Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Rebecca Clarke, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, Margaret bonds, Libby {…}
(Credit: Lauren Bloom) The Santa Fe Opera has announced the appointment of David Lomelí as its Chief Artistic Officer. Lomelí will be responsible for the artistic operations of the company including casting. “I could not be more thrilled to welcome David to the Santa Fe Opera. Not only is he one of the leading casting directors of his generation with {…}
Pittsburgh Opera is set to premiere a 25-minute documentary on the making of its socially-distant production of “Così fan tutte.” The production, which premiered last fall, was one of the few productions in the United States that was performed for an audience. The new documentary is entitled “COVID fan tutte” and came from a term first coined and hashtagged by {…}
Pittsburgh Opera has announced two free broadcasts performances in February. The opera company announced thatit will present “Songs from the Heart: A Valentine from Pittsburgh Opera” and “I, Too, Am America: The Music of William Grant Still and Florence Price.” The 45-minute “Songs from the Heart” concert will be presented on Feb. 14 at 5:30 p.m. and will feature a {…}
The Pittsburgh Opera has rescheduled its production of Handel’s “Semele.” The company announced that due to on-going COVID-19 concerns, including high cases in Allegheny County and the slower-than-hoped-for vaccine rollout, Pittsburgh Opera is delaying its upcoming production of George Frideric Handel’s” Semele” from February to May 2021. The cast and artistic team will remain the same. The new dates will include {…}