About Author: Christian Kriegeskotte
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Christian Kriegeskotte is a professional composer, conductor, writer and lecturer currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Saturday night’s production of Rossini’s comic opera La Cenerentola offered everything I have come to expect from the Pittsburgh Opera’s season finales. There were zany...
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Music is very much alive. Sadly, the unfortunate young Yeshiva student, Hannan, does not enjoy such a luxury, as he meets his untimely death in Ofer Ben-Amots’ chamber opera...
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Beethoven is dead. He died a hundred and eighty six years ago, not long after the premiere of his soaring ninth symphony, which, not unlike the triumphant soldiers to which it...
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If you are one of those people who thinks that opera does not belong in the concert hall, and that is the reason I did not see you at last night’s performance of the Pittsburgh...
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Before I write any more, I have to admit something and get it off my chest: until last Tuesday’s performance of Il Matrimonio Segreto by the Resident Artists of the Pittsburgh...
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As a writer, particularly a critical writer, I believe that the best way to convey a critical message is to allow one’s review to embody the experience of having “been...
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If the Pittsburgh Opera is doing anything right—and they are doing many, many things right—it is continuing to cast baritone Mark Delavan in its main-stage productions. I...
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks...” Anyone at all acquainted with the early nineties television show, Unsolved Mysteries, will probably recall...
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If I had to draw only one conclusion from this Friday’s performance of the Pittsburgh Symphony, it is that our illustrious maestro Manfred Honeck remains utterly encapsulated by...
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If I may “cut to the chase,” this Saturday’s vibrant production of Mozart’s comedy, “The Abduction from Seraglio” was not only a delight but a wonderfully...
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