Paul’s Case

The 2025 Studio Artist Program will present two performances of Paul’s Case, a two-act opera based on the short story By Willa Cather. Paul’s Case follows a high school student living in Pittsburgh at the turn of the century. After getting expelled from school his father forces him to give up being an usher at Carnegie Music Hall, which he loves, and get a paying job. Feeling confined by his teachers, his father, and the dull middle-class life i...