Causes: Arts & Culture, Opera

Mission:
Opera Theater presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. Opera Theater is Pittsburgh’s modern music drama company and focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on building diversity in programming and casting, on supporting emerging talent, and on broadening audiences through outreach and education.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 10,000

Programs: Opera Theater produces 3 to 4 operas or music dramas annually attracting an audience of more than 6,000 opera neophytes and aficionados alike. Known for "taking opera out of the opera hall", Opera Theater productions are often set in interesting untraditional venues that have ranged from the Hunt Armory for the company's production of "Bluebeard's Castle" to staging Bizet's belly-dance opera "Djamileh" in the Persian Rug Emporium of Artifacts Gallery to this coming season's production of Gluck's "Orfeo and Euridice" at the William Penn Snyder Mansion in the Northside.