21 stories by "Elizabeth Bloom / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
The night before the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance's FanFest last month, Thomas Leturgey couldn't sleep.
Evan Smith parks his car underneath the Bloomfield Bridge, on a slice of asphalt between a basketball court and a baseball field. His gray Honda CR-V seems more fitting for harried parents t…
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble was an early adopter " one might say a pioneer " of a multisensory, multimedia approach to performance that is becoming the norm among classical music organ…
Point Counterpoint II " Pittsburgh's weird, Louis Kahn-designed concert boat " has suitors.
Michele Fabrizi was leafing through a program book at a Pittsburgh Opera show in February when two advertisements caught her eye.
Opera companies in Pittsburgh don't generally build their productions around an individual singer.
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble is back in town.
Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison are friends. Really. They only play enemies on TV.
When Pittsburgh Festival Opera was looking to develop an opera about social justice and race, Jonathan Eaton first looked outward, and then he turned inward.
The actor and comedian John Cleese is coming to Heinz Hall on Sept. 29.
The applause was rapturous, and the performance hadn't even begun.
Call it a long-awaited debut.
If you have been paying close attention to the Pittsburgh Opera calendar for the last five years, you may have noticed that the company has presented a Verdi piece as its first opera each se…
You know the type. He is sitting down in a theater, attentively listening to a performance " a musical, an opera, a concert, anything. As the show starts to winds down, he prepares to stand …
CHARLESTON, S.C. " The paint on the house was peeling, the metal deck railing rusting. Were it not for the red diamond designs stamped onto the structure and a small descriptive placard in f…
Which is stranger?
In its 78th season, Pittsburgh Opera will make one of its most ambitious statements yet. The company will offer the first full production of Daniel Sonenberg's "The Summer King," an opera ab…
Pittsburgh Opera will produce the 2018 world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz's "Bhutto," an opera about the former prime minister of Pakistan who was assassinated 2007.
Resonance Works | Pittsburgh is only halfway through its second full season, but one senses that the group expects to be around for a while.
During the intermission of "The Winter's Tale," two friends told me they were surprised: They hadn't expected an opera.
The Metropolitan Opera in New York, the most significant opera company and the largest performing arts organization in the country, has opted not to use blackface on the title char…
