Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: There’s something magical about grand old opera, sort of like a dusty bottle of top-shelf Italian wine.
Some of these older works, many of them more than a century old, continue to draw a crowd no matter how many times a company performs them. These “blue chip” operas are the works with some name recognition today — “Carmen,” “Madama Butterfly,” “The Marriage of Figaro” and “The Magic Flute” — and glorious music that stokes the very fires of the soul.
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I researched the Pittsburgh Opera for my Basic Design Scavenger Hunt project and I learned about Tosca. It's exciting that the show has opened and drawn in a large crowd. This article argues that opera these days is focused less on filling seats and instead being artistically fulfilling for the performers involved. I can see how such a thing would be true as opera is a dying art form. If you are in opera, you are probably in it because of your own passion and inspiration rather than money. Hopefully, general theater will not get to such a point, so it's important that we find ways to stay relevant and connected to today's audiences. Being artistically fulfilled is great, but I also want food on the table and a roof over my head and maybe some time to be fulfilled in other ways, not just artistically. If I had time to go see Tosca this weekend, I would love to! It sounds very exciting and dramatic, and I'd be especially curious as to how they did the blood effects.
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