Opera Theater of Pittsburgh reinvents itself as a 17-day summer festival

Pittsburgh City Paper: Opera Theater of Pittsburgh occupies what might seem an unlikely headquarters: the third floor of Lawrenceville's Stephen Foster Community Center, a hulking old brick building owned by the Catholic Youth Association. The ground floor houses a senior center and the second level is a day care. So while sopranos and tenors rehearse upstairs, toddlers scale the jungle gym and white-haired gents step outside to bemoan the humidity.