Set in Rome, and taking place over the course of 24 hours in June of 1800, Puccini’s Tosca is the ultimate in opera melodrama. Tosca combines political intrigue, love, loyalty, betrayal and murder with powerful music to create an unforgettably operatic experience. We are thrilled to present Leah Crocetto in the title role of Tosca. […]
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is one of the most popular comic operas of all time. Filled with amusing cases of mistaken identity and romantic subterfuge, plus music by a Mozart at the height of his powers, The Marriage of Figaro has stood the test of time for centuries. Based on the play by Pierre […]
As part of Pittsburgh Opera’s commitment to bring new, American operas to the Benedum Center stage, we are very proud to announce the Pittsburgh premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s critically acclaimed opera Moby-Dick. The opera is based on the famous novel of the same name by Herman Melville, about Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit […]
We will conclude our 2017-18 season with Donizetti’s L’elisir d’Amore – The Elixir Of Love, a comedy about a traveling medicine show huckster who claims to possess a love potion. The story concerns a “little nobody” named Nemorino. Nemorino is smitten with the beautiful and wealthy Adina, who appears to be completely out of his […]
Pittsburgh Opera brings a gripping, contemporary American opera to the CAPA Theater in Jeremy Howard Beck’s The Long Walk. With a libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, The Long Walk is based on the book The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows by Brian Castner. The opera is a deeply personal exploration […]
“BREAKING BAD meets Samuel Beckett…a journey to a Dante-esque underworld.” Pittsburgh Opera is proud to produce our second world premiere in two years. Savage Winter (formerly called Ashes & Snow), composed by Douglas J. Cuomo and directed by Jonathan Moore, is based on Wilhelm Müller’s 24 poem cycle used as the text for Franz Schubert’s famous Winterreise […]
