An avant-garde performance band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is currently on tour with their latest show. Squonk Opera's Inferno is a multi-media spectacle that combines music, drama, video and ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA)-- The Three Rivers Regatta is unfortunately canceled this year, but the show must go on! The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced that the debut of Squonk Opera's newest show, ...

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The Squonk Opera is celebrating its 20th anniversary with 20 free performances around the city of Pittsburgh, but the entertainers will not be on a stage. Steve O'Hearn, Co-Artistic Director and ...

Why are we moved by music? Why, generally, does a cello make us feel sad and a banjo happy? And how is it we connect music to visual images -- to colors and shapes -- to sharpen those emotions? What ...

SteelStacks in Bethlehem is celebrating its first anniversary in lavish style this weekend with a Zany Umbrella Circus "Cake" and a Squonk Opera "Astro-Rama" call to the universe. Zany Umbrella Circus ...

Steve O’Hearn, left, and West Greene student Sam Wilson wait to see how much pressure West Greene student Derek St. Pierre needs to apply to break a balloon sitting on 100 nails. Squonk Opera, an art ...

The etymology of “squonk” reveals itself in the show’s explosive opening. The Tyrolean trumpet is “like eight stainless steel party horns welded together,” said co-artistic director Steve O’Hearn, who ...