FELLOW TRAVELERS and More Set for Pittsburgh Opera 2025-26 Season
The season will feature La Bohème and more.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Feb. 28, 2025
Pittsburgh Opera has revealed its 2025-26 season, the company's 87th. Pittsburgh Opera will be producing five operas, which will be performed across a total of four different venues-the Benedum Center, the Byham Theater, Pittsburgh Opera's headquarters the Bitz Opera Factory, and for the first time Calvary Episcopal Church. The different venues give audiences a chance to experience opera on both a grand and intimate scale.
Season Overview
La Bohème
- Music by Giacomo Puccini; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
- Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, downtown Pittsburgh
- October 18, 21, 23, 24, 26, 2025
Fellow Travelers
- Music by Gregory Spears with a libretto by Greg Pierce, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon
- Byham Theater, downtown Pittsburgh
- November 14, 15, 16, 2025
Curlew River
- Music by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by William Plomer
- Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside
- January 24, 27, 30, February 1, 2026
Time to Act - World Premiere!
- Music by Laura Kaminsky with a libretto by Crystal Manich
- Bitz Opera Factory, in Pittsburgh's Strip District
- February 28, March 3, 6, 8, 2026
Falstaff
- Music by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare
- Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
- April 28, 30, May 1, 3, 2026
Special Events:
- Bravo Academy (summer camp for ages 11-15)
- Week 1: Monday, July 7, 2025 - Friday, July 11, 2025
- Week 2: Monday, July 14, 2025 - Friday, July 18, 2025
- 70th Annual Diamond Horseshoe Celebration - Saturday, October 11, 2025
- Fashion Show - Monday, March 23, 2026
- Maecenas XLI - Saturday, May 16, 2026
Free, Low Cost, and Other Events:
- FREE Pre-Opera Talks- one hour before each performance
- FREE Meet The Artists - following each Tuesday evening performance unless otherwise indicated
- FREE Rising Stars concert - Sept. 28, 2025 at the Bitz Opera Factory
- FREE Song Shop concerts - selected Saturdays during the season at the Bitz Opera Factory
- FRIENDS of Pittsburgh Opera events
- Pittsburgh Opera New Guard events
- WQED previews and broadcasts
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