Resonance Works is thrilled to close its ninth season with a long-awaited production of Giuseppe Verdi’s heartbreaking opera masterpiece Rigoletto. Vibrating with emotion, Rigoletto is a timeless tale about fate and revenge. Rigoletto tries to protect his pure-hearted daughter Gilda, but when she falls for an infamous Duke in disguise, she encounters a treacherous world of privilege and power. This beloved tragedy has been reimagined by acclaimed stage director Mo Zhou, who updates the story to the glamor and sleaze of 1930s Hollywood, bringing Gilda’s experience into sharp focus.

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Resonance Works is thrilled to close its ninth season with a long-awaited production of Giuseppe Verdi’s heartbreaking opera masterpiece Rigoletto. Vibrating with emotion, Rigoletto is a timeless tale about fate and revenge. Rigoletto tries to protect his pure-hearted daughter Gilda, but when she falls for an infamous Duke in disguise, she encounters a treacherous world of privilege and power. This beloved tragedy has been reimagined by acclaimed stage director Mo Zhou, who updates the story to the glamor and sleaze of 1930s Hollywood, bringing Gilda’s experience into sharp focus.

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International superstar soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas makes her Pittsburgh debut in this one-night-only concert of opera, art song, jazz, and more. Praised by critics worldwide for her vocally compelling performances, Kizart-Thomas brings her versatility as a classical, jazz, soul, and pop vocal soloist to this program celebrating the significant contributions of women artists. This unforgettable performance will feature arias honoring the dramatic heroines of the opera stage portrayed by such artists as Shirley Verrett, Leontyne Price, and Jessye Norman, jazz standards popularized by the “First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald, art songs by contemporary Black women composers, and new pieces commissioned and created by Kizart-Thomas. Presented in the intimate setting of Oakland’s Mellon Institute Auditorium, this concert is a powerful testament to the women who shaped music during the 20th century.

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After almost 2 years, Resonance Works has returned to live performance, but you can enjoy the music from your favorite device! Back to the Future featured Pittsburgh premieres of works inspired by past musical traditions from around the world, written by four of today’s most important living composers: Missy Mazzoli, Chen Yi, Jessie Montgomery, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

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Resonance Works returns to live performance with music by some of today’s most important living composers: Missy Mazzoli, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessie Montgomery, and Chen Yi. Guest soloist Jeffrey Turner, former principal double bassist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, joins the Resonance Chamber Orchestra and conductor Maria Sensi Sellner for the company’s debut at the Greer Cabaret at Theater Square!

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Resonance Works returns to live performance with music by some of today’s most important living composers: Missy Mazzoli, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessie Montgomery, and Chen Yi. Guest soloist Jeffrey Turner, former principal double bassist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, joins the Resonance Chamber Orchestra and conductor Maria Sensi Sellner for the company’s debut at the Greer Cabaret at Theater Square!

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Celebrate the premiere of HEROES with the Decameron Opera Coalition in a LIVE streaming Premiere Night Party at 8pm ET with artist interviews and glimpses at all 8 world premieres chapters of HEROES! This free event will stream on www.decameronoperacoalition.org as well as the DOC Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Brought together during the pandemic through the Decameron Opera Coalition, Resonance Works and Bare Opera join forces to bring you Midsummer Music, a series of virtual performances filmed in New York City and Pittsburgh featuring an octet of artists and a program of art song and chamber music including works by some of the composers from the DOC's acclaimed Tales from a Safe Distance!

This third and last set includes witty works by DOC co-founders Peter Hilliard & Matt Boresi, Rachel J. Peters, and Maria Thompson Corley.

Brought together during the pandemic through the Decameron Opera Coalition, Resonance Works and Bare Opera join forces to bring you Midsummer Music, a series of virtual performances filmed in New York City and Pittsburgh featuring an octet of artists and a program of art song and chamber music including works by some of the composers from the DOC's acclaimed Tales from a Safe Distance!

This second set includes Gilda Lyons’ brilliant Folklorico for violin, cello, and piano, and vocal music by Joaquín Turina, Gerardo Guevara, and Manuel de Falla.

Brought together during the pandemic through the Decameron Opera Coalition, Resonance Works and Bare Opera join forces to bring you Midsummer Music, a series of virtual performances filmed in New York City and Pittsburgh featuring an octet of artists and a program of art song and chamber music including works by some of the composers from the DOC's acclaimed Tales from a Safe Distance!

This first set includes art song by Rachel J. Peters, Maria Thompson Corley, Jasmine Barnes, and Jules Massenet, and works for violin and piano by Marc Mígo and Joan Manén.

You can now enjoy the most ambitious operatic co-creation of the pandemic in IDAGIO's Global Concert Hall! Join the 10 friends meeting up online, and enjoy their stories for only $15: one ticket gives you unlimited access to all four episodes through the end of 2021. IDAGIO is leading streaming platform for classical music, and we are thrilled for this new partnership with the Decameron Opera Coalition!

Maureen Conlon-Gutierrez, violin
Karen Jeng Lin, piano

Premiering on Sunday, February 14th at 3 p.m.
Immediately followed by a live stream conversation with the artists!

Works by Pauline Viardot, Clara Schumann, Gina Enriquez, and Amy Marcy Beach

Your $9 ticket and any additional donations directly support the work of the performing artists on this series.

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Join us on Sunday January 10 at 3:00 pm for the next premiere in our Virtual Resonance Chamber Series! Sandro Leal-Santiesteban has been the concertmaster of our Resonance Chamber Orchestra since 2014 and is often a featured soloist, most recently with the Bernstein Serenade in May 2019. In this program, Sandro performs works of Ysaÿe, Biber, Schulhoff, and Indian-American composer Reena Esmail.

Your $9 ticket and any additional donations directly support the work of the performing artists on this series.

Join us for a Last Hurrah Tales Watch Party tomorrow December 30 at 7pm EST. The creators, producers, and cast will binge watch all 4 episodes together, chat with you in between, and you can even download a personalized bingo card of things to watch for in the show. We can't think of a more fun way to celebrate this amazing project!

All you need is a Tales ticket, then click on the "Join Watch Party" link that will appear on the episode page at party time on December 30.

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Join us for what we are pretty sure is the first-ever Vegetable Puppet Opera Movie™: Verdi by Vegetables, by the creative team of Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi. Our December 13th premiere event will include interludes for veggie-opera trivia, cocktails, bingo, prizes, raffles, and virtual mingling with the artists and creators - all alongside the film premiere! Over 100 puppets made of produce star in Verdi by Vegetables along with over 30 of your favorite featured artists, who all donated their time and talent in support of Resonance Works.

By supporting Resonance Works Pittsburgh today, you will help us continue to produce artist-driven, multi-modal on-demand performances into 2021 that empower musicians and engage audiences.

“In An Expanding Universe” is a sextet’s answer to the question: is our world now smaller or bigger? As we all stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, we can no longer make music with those outside our own households, but we can explore music and ideas with people and cultures around the world and look out into the galaxy for a sense of meaning and wonder.

Featuring solo and chamber works by composers from Cuba, Poland, Syria, and Australia, composers of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean descent, and works inspired by Armenia and the stars and galaxies, “In An Expanding Universe” presents global musical perspectives in honor of Resonance Works’ commitment to equity by sharing music by creators of multiple genders, races, nationalities, and sexual orientations.

Tune in Friday, December 4th, 6pm EST, for our third DOC Happy Hour: Composers in Conversation - streaming LIVE on the Decameron Opera Coalition and Resonance Works Facebook pages and DOC YouTube channel!

Join the music makers behind the ten world premiere operas that make up the unprecedented streaming event, Tales from a Safe Distance. Together they'll discuss the process, challenges, and discoveries that went into making an operatic film adaptation of Boccaccio's Decameron.

"Tales" is streaming on-demand through Dec. 31st at decameronoperacoalition.org

Tune in Friday, November 20th, 6pm EST, for our second DOC Happy Hour: Librettists in Conversation - streaming LIVE on the Decameron Opera Coalition and Resonance Works Facebook pages and DOC YouTube channel!

Join the wordsmiths behind the ten world premiere operas that make up the unprecedented streaming event, Tales from a Safe Distance. Together they'll discuss the process, challenges, and discoveries that went into making an operatic film adaptation of Boccaccio's Decameron.

"Tales" is streaming on-demand through Dec. 31st at decameronoperacoalition.org

Violinist Dawn Posey and pianist Jack Kurutz will present a program that explores early 20th century repertoire for violin and piano composed by William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Florence Price and Adolphus Hailstork.

Join us LIVE after the premiere for a virtual reception and conversation with the artists!

Ticket proceeds and donations directly support the artists on our Virtual Resonance Chamber Series

Join us for our first of a series of LIVE DOC Happy Hour conversations that go behind the scenes of “Tales from a Safe Distance”! We begin with the producers from the 9 companies that make up the Decameron Opera Coalition and co-creators Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi. How did this group find each other when many of them have never met in person? Tune in to find out!

DOC Happy Hour: Producers in Conversation will be streamed LIVE (and archived) on our Facebook page and the Decameron Opera Coalition YouTube channel.

Join in the conversation with your questions and comments!

Episode 4: The Bolts of Fortune

“Sourdough: Rise Up”
— Resonance Works
”Corsair”
— Chicago Fringe Opera
”The Happy Hour Finale”
— featuring Luca Pisaroni

10 creative teams. 9 companies from across the United States. 4 electric nights of new opera.
“Tales from a Safe Distance” features nine World Premiere one-act operas, and a tenth wrap-around story starring internationally renowned bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni.

This unprecedented, searingly relevant, nation-wide collaboration is not to be missed.

Get Tickets at DecameronOperaCoalition.org

Episode 3: So Noble a Heart

“Orsa Ibernata”
— Milwaukee Opera Theatre
”Seven Spells”
— Opera in the Heights (Houston, TX)

10 creative teams. 9 companies from across the United States. 4 electric nights of new opera.
“Tales from a Safe Distance” features nine World Premiere one-act operas, and a tenth wrap-around story starring internationally renowned bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni.

This unprecedented, searingly relevant, nation-wide collaboration is not to be missed.

Get Tickets at DecameronOperaCoalition.org

Episode 2: Prompted by Appetite

“Dinner 4 3”
— Fargo-Moorhead Opera (ND)
"The Roost”
— UrbanArias (Washington D.C.)

Tickets and more: DecameronOperaCoalition.org

Episode 1: Both Gladsome and Grievous

“The Happy Hour”
— by Hilliard & Boresi, featuring Luca Pisaroni
"Everything Comes to a Head”
— Lyric Opera of the North, Duluth, MN
”The Late Walk”
— Bare Opera, NYC

Tickets and more: DecameronOperaCoalition.org

Music written in the last 5 years, including a world premiere, works by Carnegie Mellon alums, and a set of songs from Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices, which premiered alongside the world premiere of the opera “I Am a Dreamer Who no Longer Dreams” last fall by Boston’s White Snake Projects. Our production of Dreamer has been postponed a year, but two of our cast will perform these songs, created by writers and composers with connections to the immigrant experience.

Anna Singer is composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth looking back on what it was like to be a composer and a woman in Rachel Peters’ Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo, kicking off an inspiring survey of art song by women from the 17th through 20th centuries.

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Powerful music in honor of all of the lives lost this year to violence and to the pandemic, featuring Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater and pieces by Nancy Galbraith and Gilda Lyons.

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