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Pittsburgh Opera Announces Its 2026-27 Season!

  Announcing our 2026-27 Season! We hope you have been enjoying our 2025-26 Season, and we know you have been waiting to see what comes next! So... we are thrilled to announce our upcoming  2026-27 Season  (our 88th) featuring beloved classics as well as contemporary new works. This season will be a season of old favorites and fresh beginnings as we welcome our new  General Director William Powers  this July. Filled with centuries of stirring music, and old tales made new again, this upcoming season will have something for everyone... plus our sixth  world premiere ! RIGOLETTO Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Based on the play  Le Roi s'Amuse  by Victor Hugo Benedum Center October 10, 16, 18, 2026 ORPHEUS & EURYDICE Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, with instrumentation by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi Byham Theater November 14, 20, 22, 2026 PARTENOPE Music by George Frideric Handel Original libret...
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From Vietnam to Carnegie: Mai Khôi & the Dissidents, April 10

  MUSIC HALL Mai Khôi & the Dissidents Five Years in Exile  Album Release Concert Friday, April 10 at 8:00 PM The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to welcome Mai Khôi & the Dissidents for their Carnegie Carnegie debut, celebrating the release of their new album  Five Years in Exile . This performance is part of a Northeast and Midwest tour that also takes the band to New York City, Philadelphia, and Cleveland.   The album follows Khôi through her first five years in the United States, where she sought refuge in 2019 after fleeing political persecution in Vietnam. Co-written with keyboardist Mark Micchelli, the songs are personal and introspective, weaving through jazz, experimental music, math rock, art song, and even the pop and dance music Khôi once sang in Vietnam. Protest music sits alongside songs of love, nostalgia, loneliness, and grief.   Read more about Mai Khôi on her website at  mai-khoi.com   Following the concer...

Opening Friday at Carnegie Stage

      Where Pittsburgh's Artists Play   Opening Friday Carnegie Stage   BREADCRUMBS Performance Dates: April 10-11, 16-18 at 7:30pm, April 12 at 2:00pm April 10 (Sold Out)     Follow the trail… if you dare. BREADCRUMBS , the haunting, lyrical play by Jennifer Haley , comes to Carnegie Stage for a limited engagement.    Tickets A poetic story about the relationship between two complicated women. Alida is a reclusive fiction writer who has been diagnosed with dementia. She begrudgingly must depend upon Beth, a troubled young caregiver who offers to help Alida complete her autobiography. Together they delve into the dark woods of Alida's past, unearthing a tragedy that shatters their notions of language, loneliness, and essential self.   Directed by Ingrid Sonnichsen, and reuniting Carnegie Stage favorites Erika Cuenca and Virginia Wall Gruenert . Find out what else is happening at Carnegie Stage