Sip & Sing this Friday | Song Shop Saturday

Outside the Salon:
Sip & Sing

Limited tickets remain!

Join Pittsburgh Opera’s Resident Artists on Friday, October 23rd at 6:00 PM for an evening of live performances, wine pairings, plus a rare backstage look at our production of Orpheus & Eurydice! Watch our set take shape, create a costume piece, make a community art piece, and go behind the curtain like never before.

Your $50 ticket includes wine tasting, light bites, live entertainment, and behind-the-scenes activities.

Sip & Sing is hosted at the Bitz Opera Factory’s Hahn Rehearsal Hall – not usually open to the public!

A Song Shop concert last season at the Bitz Opera Factory (photo credit: David Bachman)

October Song Shop Concert

Our FREE Song Shop concerts are back!

Join us Saturday, October 24th at noon inside the Bitz Opera Factory for a free concert featuring our Resident Artist singers. Fresh off the Rigoletto stage, these up-an-coming opera stars want to show off some of the arias they have been working on. Featuring music from Mozart, Delibes, and of course Verdi (just in time for his birthday month), our Resident Artists' favorite arias are sure to be some of yours as well.

Stay to meet and mingle after the show, with snacks and coffee provided by the FRIENDS of Pittsburgh Opera!

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