Sunday, July 27, 2025, 6:59AM | 
MENU
Advertisement
Teanna Medina leads the conga line into dinner.
11
MORE

Gala Cubana! raises funds for Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette

Gala Cubana! raises funds for Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Where and when: Saturday night at the Pittsburgh Golf Club, Squirrel Hill.

All the party details: The Pittsburgh Festival Opera (formerly known as the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh) welcomed more than 150 guests to a Cuba-inspired fundraiser. Guests enjoyed a VIP rum tasting featuring ​Maggie's Farm Rum before digging into fish wrapped in banana leaves and other Cuban delicacies prepared by chef Mike Wagner. Orchids displayed in Cuban cigar boxes were the creative centerpieces, but the highlight of the evening was the performances, including a joyful Afro-Cuban dance piece, “Ochun” (the goddess of love) performed by Teanna Medina during dinner. Guests, who helped raise $25,000, then kicked upf their heels and danced to the rhythms of the Guaracha Latin Dance Band led by Miguel Sague III.

#SEEN: Clement George with Rita Zambelina, event chair Carolyn Smith with husband Bud, board chairman Dr. Eugene N. Myers with wife Barbara, Joseph Bilecki, Dan and Carole Kamin, Lisa Valanti, Dr. James R. Sohovey and Nicholas M. Miskovsky and Demareus Cooper and Lana Neumyer, a fashion designer who featured her one-of-a-kind pieces throughout the evening. Also #SEEN were company founder and board member Mildred Miller Posvar with children Wesley Posvar Jr., Marina Posvar and Lisa Rossi; David and Gail Mosites, Kip and Desiree Soteres, artistic director Jonathan Eaton with Gwen McDonald, associate artistic director Joel Goodloe, music director Robert Frankenberry as Fidel Castro, singer Christopher Scott as Che Guevara and Stephanie Ramos, who performed three traditional Cuban songs.

Advertisement

First Published: April 24, 2017, 4:00 a.m.

Advertisement
RELATED
SHOW COMMENTS (0)  
Join the Conversation
Commenting policy | How to Report Abuse
If you would like your comment to be considered for a published letter to the editor, please send it to letters@post-gazette.com. Letters must be under 250 words and may be edited for length and clarity.
Partners
Advertisement
A huge Canadian flag carried by a crowd in Montreal in 1995, before a referendum on Quecec’s independence. Dennis Jett suggests Pennsylvania do the same in reverse.
1
opinion
Dennis Jett: Pennsylvania should become part of Canada
New cornerback Jalen Ramsey (5) gets into position prior to a play during practice on the first day of Steelers Training Camp at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe Thursday, July 24, 2025.
2
sports
Steelers training camp observations: Jalen Ramsey-led defense comes out 'aggressive and angry'
There is a large covered porch at the front of the house at 115 Forest Hills Road in Forest Hills.
3
life
Buying Here: Forest Hills home in its own 'mini-forest' listed for $425,000
Several houses are shown along N. Dallas Avenue near Penn Avenue in Point Breeze with “For Sale” signs in the front yard, Friday, March 21, 2025.
4
business
A cooling market and patient buyers are causing many Pittsburgh home sellers to cut their prices
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo.
5
sports
Off The Bat: Mitch Keller's Pirates tenure wasn't supposed to go like this
Teanna Medina leads the conga line into dinner.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Marina Posvar and Mildred Miller Posvar with Robert Frankenberry.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Carolyn and Bud Smith.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Model Joey Nkuissi in a Lana Neumeyer design.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Daniel Meunier performs.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Steve Mosites, left, with Desiree and Kip Soteres.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Rita Zambelina and Clement George.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Jonathan Eaton.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Gail Mosites and Desiree Soteres.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Carolyn Smith and Georgia Bokor.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Drs. Clark Rosen and Aru Sapre.  (Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette)
Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette
Advertisement
LATEST life
Advertisement
TOP
Email a Story