Retirees Association

The Elixir of Love

The Elixir of Love
The Elixir of Love at the Benedum Center, Sunday, April 29, 2018

The trip to see The Elixir of Love has been cancelled. 


Members of the Retirees Association will travel by chartered bus to the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh to see the opera, The Elixir of Love, a comedy about a traveling medicine show huckster who claims to possess a love potion.

The Pittsburgh Opera is offering the Retirees Association a substantial educational discount on tickets.  Plus, included on the bus trip will be a pre-opera talk by Byron Nelson, a retiree from the WVU English Department and the OLLI instructor for Opera as Drama. Byron will also offer a short critical recap on the way home.

We will leave Morgantown from the Mountaineer Mall at 10:30 a.m. and arrive in Pittsburgh around 12 Noon. There are several restaurants near the Benedum Center where you can have lunch on your own.

There is a pre-opera talk that begins at 1:00 p.m. at the Benedum. The opera starts at 2 p.m. The opera runs about 2 hours and 30 minutes including one intermission.  We should leave Pittsburgh around 5:00 p.m. and be back in Morgantown around 6:30 p.m.

For this trip, you will have a choice between two packages:

  • For Orchestra seating and transportation, the cost is $60 per seat.
  • For Balcony seating and transportation, the cost is $40 per seat.

Refund Policy:  Reservations for this trip are due by April 18, 2018.  On that day, we will make our commitment to the Pittsburgh Opera and to Budget Charters.  As a result, we will not be able to make any refunds after April 18, 2018.   

To join us on the trip, you will need to reserve your seat(s) on the bus and then make your payment. It is a two-step process.

Reserve your seat(s):

To reserve your seat(s), click on The Elixir of Love.

Write your check to:

WVU Foundation
On the memo line: Elixir – 2W924

Send your check to:

WVU Retirees Association
PO Box 6640
Morgantown WV 26506