Opera review: Superb mini-operas convey heartfelt grief

Post Gazette: "Love and loss -- more specifically, the loss of one's beloved -- were the issues and inspiration for a pair of hour-long song-cycles by Ricky Ian Gordon, presented by Pittsburgh Opera Saturday evening at the company's splendid new office-rehearsal-performance facility in the Strip District. The works are outpourings of grief over the death of Gordon's life partner, Jeffrey Grossi, who succumbed to complications of AIDS in 1996. As staged, simply but effectively by Crystal Manich, each became a mini-opera, all the more emotionally charged by the presence of the composer in the second row of the small auditorium."