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Resonance Works is excited to announce our spring benefit event - Verdi by Vegetables, A Gala in Green at the newly refurbished WBU Event Venue in Spring Hill!

Join us for an evening of music, food, and fun, all in support of Resonance Works!

The evening’s main course will be the world premiere performance of Eat Your Greens: The Complete Works of Verdi performed by Vegetables by the creative team of Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi:

Eat Your Greens

Greens are good for you, whether in the form of nutrient rich veggies, or the inspired music of the monolithic composer Giuseppe "Joe Green" Verdi. Eat Your Greens explores Verdi's life and loves in a time of Italian political upheaval, and his music's profound impact on opera history. Rigoletto! La Traviata! Aida! Verdi's entire operatic canon plus the Requiem beautifully sung by... puppets made of produce. It's a hilarious, informative, and tasty evening of opera.

A quintet of Resonance Works’ favorite singers spanning our 7 year history are returning to Pittsburgh for this herbaceous happening, and there will be a special musical preview of the opening production of our 2020-21 season: I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams!

Bid on exciting items in our ticket and silent auction! Enjoy specialty cocktails and a farm to table menu! Mingle with our artists! See Aida performed by tomatoes and zucchini - what could be better?!

Single ticket - $100
Couple’s ticket - $180
Buy a Table (of 8) - $650

ARTISTS

You loved them before - wait until you see them perform with produce!

Soprano Rebecca Shorstein has been with Resonance Works since the very beginning, appearing as a witch in our inaugural production of Verdi’s Macbeth. Known for her infectious joie de vivre, she has dazzled Pittsburgh audiences many times since in: The Elixir of Love, Trouble in Tahiti, The Coffee Cantata, Cinderella, Side by Side by Sondheim, Rusalka, On the Town, and has brought her Rebonica cabaret act to our Resonance Chamber series twice!

Soprano Joanna Latini is a rising star in American opera today, and we are proud that she has been in the ResWorks family since she was a student at Carnegie Mellon University - as a witch and spirit in Macbeth and chorus for The Elixir of Love, recently returning in 2018 as the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka. We are thrilled that she will make her role debut as Gilda in our Rigoletto this May, but first she has some nightshades to share the stage with in Eat Your Greens!

Mezzo-soprano Maria Lopez was the fiery Candelas in El Amor Brujo in 2015’s Flamenco y Tango performances. Since then, she has made a number of national and international debuts including the Kennedy Center and at the Teatr Muzyczny in Poznań, Poland. She can also be heard in independent films and major motion pictures (including Disney/Pixar’s COCO).

Tenor Stefan Barner was our dashing and all-too human prince in Dvorak’s Rusalka, co-starring with his real-life love. During rehearsals for Rusalka, he also found the time and energy to run the Pittsburgh Marathon, so performing music from all of Verdi’s 26 operas in 45 min should be no sweat for this champion tenor.

Baritone Patrick McNally, also a Carnegie Mellon alum, wowed as the charming sargeant Belcore in The Elixir of Love and as Ozzie in last season’s On the Town. He also will return later this spring as Marullo in our 7th season finale, Verdi’s Rigoletto.

Join these fabulous artists and more for a one-of-a-kind evening, in support of a one-of-a-kind company!