♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
♦ Pictures at an Exhibition
Heinz Hall
January 12, 8:00PM
January 13, 7:soPM
January 14, 2:30PM
Martinů: Thunderbolt P-47 [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
To the left, you’ll see a Parisian garden with children joyfully playing. To the right, you’ll see a hut running on chicken legs. Journey down the museum corridor with us as we hear the sounds of art in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Yulianna Avdeeva also returns with Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, written to be reminiscent of the coastline of France, led by the debut of conductor Petr Popelka.
♦ Courage to Stand
Heinz Hall
January 17, 7:00PM
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra chronicles artistic defiance. From the opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, full of fate and fury, to the world-building text of Langston Hughes—experience music that outlasts, outshines, and out-dreams all barriers. Featuring music by Aaron Copland, Jessie Montgomery, Arvo Pärt, Valerie Coleman, and more, with special guest appearances by Vocalist Nikki Porter, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Yoshiaki Nakano, and PSO Acting Principal Violist Tatjana Mead Chamis.
♦ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Heinz Hall
January 20, 7:00PM
January 21, 2:30PM
Get ready to fight a dragon, swim with merpeople, and find out just who put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire™! For the first time ever, audiences can rediscover the magic of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ while a live symphony orchestra performs Patrick Doyle’s unforgettable score.
♦ Barber & Bartok
Heinz Hall
January 26, 8:00PM
January 28, 2:30PM
Nico Muhly: Bright Idea [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ]
Barber: Violin Concerto
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Written in Pennsylvania by a Pennsylvanian, Samuel Barber’s beloved Violin Concerto still moves listeners in profound ways, and we are thrilled to welcome back the spirited Alexi Kenney to showcase this masterpiece.
Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra rounds out the program with a work spotlighting the virtuosity of every musician on stage. With sounds ranging from “jesting” to “sternness” to “life-assertion,” this piece gives the listener the entire array of human emotion in one climactic piece.
Composer Nico Muhly will be present for all performances
♦ Rajaton Sings Queen
Heinz Hall
January 30, 7:30PM
The PSO will “Rock You” in this exploration of Queen’s epic masterpieces, led by Finnish a cappella ensemble, Rajaton.
♦ PITTSBURGH OPERA
♦ Iphigénie en Tauride
CAPA Theater
January 20, 8:00PM
January 23, 7:00PM
January 26, 7:30PM
January 28, 2:00PM
Blood is thicker…
In the aftermath of the Trojan War, the priestess Iphigénie is tasked to kill any strangers who land on Scythia’s shores. But as Fate would have it, her brother Oreste is the first to be shipwrecked on the peninsula and brought to the sacrificial altar.
The priestess believes her brother to be dead and responsible for the death of their mother. Oreste in turn believes that Iphigénie had been sacrificed to the goddess Diana by their father Agamemnon in return for favorable winds. The siblings fail to recognize each other yet Iphigénie feels a strange kinship with the ill-fated stranger. She wishes to spare him, but Oreste—driven mad by grief and guilt over his family’s compounding tragedy—welcomes death. Will they discover the truth before it is too late?
Showcasing the transition from baroque to classical opera, Christoph Gluck reimagines Euripides’ great Greek drama and reignites it in true operatic form.
♦ CITY THEATRE
♦ South Side Stories Revisited
1800 Bingham Street
Pittsburgh, PA
January 13 – February 18
For Dates & Times: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/south-side-stories-revisited/
In 2012, Tami Dixon sat on the sidewalks of the South Side of Pittsburgh asking residents to tell her stories. The resulting one woman play delighted audiences and was described as “dazzling” and “a big, fat evening of bliss” (City Paper). Ten years later, Dixon returns to the streets of the South Side to revisit her vivid set of tales and explore how the community where City Theatre resides has changed.