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A group of high school students prepares for a production of Sophocles’ Antigone, joined by a new student, Alona, who comes with a formidable secret.

Pittsburgh Opera is proud to present this gripping world premiere. Time to Act demonstrates how the arts can uplift and unify victims of trauma, empowering them to act, while giving voice to the young citizens who have been most impacted by an ongoing cycle of devastating school violence.

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Time To Act

Pittsburgh Opera

A woman driven mad by the mystery of her lost son learns of her boy’s unfortunate fate from a chance encounter with a Ferryman while crossing a river.

Based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidigawa River, Curlew River retells this story as a Christian parable. Written in the style of monastic plain song and laden with musical symbolism, this piece artfully melds theatrical simplicity with ecumenical grandeur

Curlew River

Calvary Episcopal Church

At the height of the McCarthy era, naive college graduate Timothy Laughlin comes to Washington eager to join the crusade against communism. But a chance encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim’s first job—and his first relationship with a man.

Under the threat of increased government scrutiny, this complicated and clandestine affair will put both men’s loyalties and convictions to the ultimate test. As the poisonous political climate pollutes their relationship, love becomes a casualty of what it takes to “play the game” in Washington.

Fellow Travelers

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Set against the backdrop of 1830’s Paris, La Bohème follows four impoverished artists surviving with little more than friendship, passion, and their love for art.

When Roldolfo, a poet, and Mimì, a young seamstress, meet, the two are drawn into a tumultuous and passionate affair with a love that can only be broken by death.
La Bohème will make you laugh, and bring you to tears, with its timeless story and captivating music.

La Bohème

Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

To prevent the capture of Jerusalem by the knights of the First Crusade, The Prince of Darkness has sent the enchantress Armida into the world to seduce the Christian heroes and turn them from their duty. The bravest of these, Rinaldo, has fallen under Armida's spell. But, to her surprise, she becomes enchanted by him as well. She comes to love him so deeply that she cannot bring herself to destroy him. For both, duty clashes with desire. As war rages around them, will love conquer them both?

Armida

Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts

When painter Cavaradossi—the lover of Rome’s enchanting diva Floria Tosca—decides to harbor a fugitive of the law, he makes himself and his beloved Tosca a target of the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Now it is up to Tosca to free both her lover and herself from Scarpia’s clutches by making a horrific bargain that will have consequences for them all.

TOSCA

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved musical returns to the Alice Busch Opera Theater in a bold new production directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by James Lowe. Set on the cusp of statehood, Oklahoma! celebrates the dreams and complexities of settlers forging new lives on the frontier. This fresh staging evokes both the grandeur of the American landscape and the optimism of the artists who created the work as World War II raged. Oklahoma! is many things: a landmark of musical theater, a grand love story, and an invitation to reflect on the promise of America.

Oklahoma!

Alice Busch Opera Theater of Cooperstown 

Set during the 1950s “Lavender Scare,” Fellow Travelers follows two men whose romantic involvement becomes a dangerous secret in an era of government surveillance and fear. Recognized as one of the most widely performed and talked-about new American operas of the past decade, Fellow Travelers is based on Thomas Mallon’s acclaimed novel (recently adapted as a CBS/Paramount+ limited series).

The Alice Busch Opera Theater

Three suitors—Arsace, Emilio and Armindo—all vie for the affection of the captivating social butterfly, Partenope. But when Rosmira (Arsace’s jilted lover) arrives disguised as a fourth suitor “Eurimene,” the ante is upped.

Partenope

Florinda, a recent graduate of Madame Alice Tairik’s school for “ladies in waiting,” is now working for Lord and Lady Macbeth. After three witches prophesize that she will be the downfall of her new employers, Florinda is determined to fight fate and give the Macbeths the happy ending they deserve. Can she thwart destiny or is the play doomed to repeat itself?

Working For The Macbeths

Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers was destined for the operatic stage.

Baritone

Erik Nordstrom

Events

Upcoming events

Jul 10 - Aug 15, 2026

Oklahoma! · Glimmerglass Festival

Jul 18 - Aug 16, 2026

Fellow Travelers · Glimmerglass Festival

23 - 31 Jan, 2027

Partenope · Pittsburgh Opera

Feb 27 - Mar 7, 2027

Working For The Macbeths · Pittsburgh Opera

17 - 25 Apr, 2027

Romeo & Juliet · Pittsburgh Opera

Past events

Feb 28 - Mar 8, 2026

Time To Act · Pittsburgh Opera

Jan 24 - Feb 1, 2026

Curlew River · Pittsburgh Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cesare Angelotti in Tosca by Puccini

Pittsburgh Opera

Ormonte in Partenope by Handel

Pittsburgh Opera

Tommy McIntyre in Fellow Travelers by Spears

Glimmerglass Festival

Schaunard in La bohème by Puccini

Pittsburgh Opera

Ubaldo in Armida by Haydn

Pittsburgh Opera

Jud Fry in Oklahoma! by Hammerstein

Glimmerglass Festival

Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette by Gounod

Pittsburgh Opera

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