February 10, 2026 7:00 PM –8:30 PM
Aria412 Presents I Hear America Singing Film Premiere
Tuesday February 10, 2026
Doors 6 PM / Movie 7 PM
$15 General Admission
I Hear America Singing Pittsburgh Premiere! This film was shot in Pittsburgh in 2024 and features area performers. Winner of Swedish International Film Festival's Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Director, and Best Cinematography, as well as Platinum Festival Award 2025 Orson Welles Award for Best Director at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival.
A documentary film crew dogs Broadway composer Robbie Doerfler's final days as he and his friends Roger and Rose prepare for a critical backers' audition. Robbie's world unravels as he compulsively recontextualizes musical and narrative tropes to make sense of his life. Blending operatic and filmic conventions, music history, fantasy, and documentary, the fictional operafilm explores through song themes of creativity, identity, and mortality, culminating in a poignant and thought-provoking question: "Where do we go when we go up -- is it Heaven?"
Post-Screening Q&A with director Daron Hagen and the Pittsburgh cast will follow!
