Currently, the National Opera House is open for tours ... Abdul, who is not from Pittsburgh, was excited to learn about the existence of the NNOC. “Music has this way of healing and pulling ...

The overture announcing the rebirth of Pittsburgh’s National Negro Opera House is over. With Tuesday’s groundbreaking, restoration has formally begun on the Homewood landmark that played an ...

The Opera House located ... $7 million to restore the house in the next 12 months, much of the construction accomplished to date will have to be redone, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

GETTING NEW LIFE. HIDDEN PITTSBURGH HISTORY NOW BEING BROUGHT TO LIFE WITH ONE WOMAN’S MISSION TO PRESERVE THIS HOUSE. IT USED TO BE THE NATIONAL -- OPERA COMPANY FOUNDED BY MARY CARDWELL DAWSON.

The City of Pittsburgh kicked off Black History Month by celebrating the National Negro Opera Company. It was the first black opera company, founded in 1941. City officials say the company broke ...

Just months later, the Pittsburgh-based Richard King Mellon ... In short, by May 2022, the National Opera House had garnered about $3 million in funding. It was enough to “deconstruct” the ...

PITTSBURGH — A national treasure in disrepair, the nation’s first Black opera house, located in Pittsburgh, is in desperate need of funding before the building and its legacy are lost forever.

"Mary Cardwell Dawson was a hidden story, was a hidden figure," said Jonnet Solomon, executive director of the National Opera House. "A huge part of history, it's a huge part of Pittsburgh's ...

The National Negro Opera Company was the first commercially successful Black opera house in the country. White: Yes. She eventually moved the operations of the company from Pittsburgh to D.C ...