The Pittsburgh Area held its annual meeting on Sunday, September 17 immediately following a tutti chorus rehearsal of Pagliacci.  Members from the Pittsburgh Opera chorus, Pittsburgh Opera production staff, and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre attended the meeting.

Those pictured are opera choristers unless otherwise indicated:

Left to right, kneeling, Carol Wolfe (committee vice chair), Julie Barkovich (Pittsburgh Opera production), Robert Pruitt, David Jennings-Smith, Bill Buchanan (committee chair);

Second row:  Richard LeBeau, Yvonne Stack, Lisa Brovey Kovach, Cindy Pratt (Pittsburgh Opera delegate), Kellie McCurdy Ryan (AGMA Board of Governors member), Nancy Hanna Long, Janice Garrone, Bill Fisher, Jeff Link, John Walters, Mark Spondike, Hank Alviani, Vitaliy Lomakin;

Third row:  Sylvia Hollinshead, Stephen Hadala (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre delegate), Nicola Coppula (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre delegate), Peter Bianchi, Bob Simoni, Richard Mikol; back row:  Amanda Serra, Kate Ambrose (area committee member), David Scoville, David Martin, Ed Moore (Pittsburgh Opera delegate)