FULL FELLOW TRAVELERS (Gregory Spears) Selections & Documentary Pittsburgh PA 2025 Playlist Erik Nordstrom, Logan Wagner, Matthew Soibelman, Yazid Gray

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: FellowTravelers   
• Composer: Spears Gregory  
• Libretto: Greg Pierce, based on Thomas Mallon’s best-selling novel, Fellow Travelers    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: BYHAM THEATER, Pittsburgh PA  
• Recorded: November 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Erik Nordstrom, Logan Wagner, Matthew Soibelman, Yazid Gray, Joel Balzun, Lauryn Davis, Shannon Crowley, Daniel Teadt, Audrey Welsh
• Conductor: Antony Walker  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of Pittsburgh Opera  
• Stage Director: Brian Staufenbiel   
• Stage Designer: Jacquelyn Scott  
• Costume Designer: Y. Sharon Peng  
• Lighting Designer: Spense Matubang, Todd Nonn  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Pittsburgh Opera  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The Red Scare, tinted lavender.
  At the height of the McCarthy era, naive college graduate Timothy Laughlin comes to Washington eager to join the crusade against communism. But a chance encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim’s first job—and his first relationship with a man. Under the threat of increased government scrutiny, this complicated and clandestine affair will put both men’s loyalties and convictions to the ultimate test. As the poisonous political climate pollutes their relationship, love becomes a casualty of what it takes to “play the game” in Washington.

  Based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 gut-wrenching novel, Fellow Travelers was praised as “a near-perfect example of fast-flowing musical drama” by The New York Times and is already widely considered a contemporary classic.

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