onStage Pittsburgh: In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, the human race may find that all operas sound and look like Christopher Cerrone’s In a Grove, which had its world premiere Saturday, February 19, at the Bitz Opera Factory in the Strip. The fully amplified, compact music drama has a futuristic sound and feel unique to anything the potential auditor has likely experienced, despite librettist Stephanie Fleischmann telling us the story takes place in the 1920s.
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33. I am so very disappointed that I can not see this production. I unfortunately, have not yet made it to a Pittsburgh Opera production. I was fairly into attending opera at home in Sarasota, but my affinity has only grown since working with the School of Music here at CMU. I think that the nature of this particular opera is intended to get people excited about opera. It seems like people often associate opera with long drawn out productions you can’t understand, but who says it has to be this way. I’d be very interested to see how “In a Grove” makes opera fresh. I am also a pretty big Mimi Lien fan and have seen her work in some smaller spaces such as the Atlantic Theatre Company. I actually prefer her work in more intimate spaces to her more mainstream works, and I’d be curious to see the air she brings to the production.
I will be seeing this show on Sunday at 2:00 pm, and I am very excited! Personally, I have not been able to see any theatre in Pittsburgh yet. At least, theatre that is outside of Carnegie Mellon University. One of my goals as a Pittsburgh resident, and artist in general, is to explore more local theatre. Growing up, I watched a fair amount of theatre, but a majority of it was mainstream. By mainstream, I mean national tours. Only in 10th grade did I start exploring smaller companies and venues in Los Angeles. I remember seeing a production of In Trousers that changed my entire perspective on the type of theatre I wanted to create. For a while, I thought Broadway was the highest standard of theatre you create. But now, after seeing that production, I understand that the quality and impact of a show do not depend on where you perform the production, but how you do it. Some Broadway shows are terrible. Some small theatre company's productions are incredible. Attending In The Grove will help me achieve this goal. I also love Mimi Lien.
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