People have been tapping and striking glass objects as a means of making music for more than 600 years. By the early 1700s European musicians began serious study of causing goblets to ring by friction, rubbing a moistened finger around the rim. Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia inventor and American Colonies’ ambassador to France, enjoyed a [...]
Poor Lucia: Stuck in gloomy, Gothic Scotland, betrothed to a boy from the wrong side of the moor, caught in the middle of her brother’s blood feud … it’s enough to drive a girl mad.
And it does — famously, hauntingly. In Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor, we see the tragic transformation of a love-struck girl [...]
Così fan tutte was the last of the three librettos written for Mozart by Lorenzo da Ponte, the indefatigable scapegoat whose career of diverse occupations ended with his death in New York City in 1839. Da Ponte, by the way, was appointed the first professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University in 1825, and was [...]
Porgy & Bess has always been known to rattle the cages of opera’s conventions. This production will be no different. This time, it won’t be the themes, music or characters that will break the mold — it will be technology.
For The Atlanta Opera’s production of Porgy & Bess you will see more than this quintessential [...]
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In Charleston, the struggling occupants of Catfish Row live a life of hard work and tough times, yearning for a better life and great love. Get to know Porgy, Bess, Crown, Sportin’ Life and Serena–the amazing characters in this quintessential American opera. Composed by the forever-young George Gershwin, Porgy & Bess features Opera’s most famous [...]
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by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s anti-hero has a personality so engaging that audiences root for him, even as his dark side emerges. Don Giovanni is a brilliant combination of [...]
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A Comic Opera Based on the Book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl
A young boy named Charlie finds a “golden ticket” admitting him into Willy Wonka’s top-secret chocolate factory where he encounters chocolate rivers, inflating blueberries, magic elevators and other delights.
The Golden Ticket is a poignant tale about wishes coming [...]
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Lucia’s forced marriage sets off a chain of tragic events that leads to the most spectacular mad scene in opera. Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor reveals chilling tragedy on a grand scale and will leave you breathless.
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
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Two officers boast of their fiancées’ faithfulness and a clever friend dares them to put it to the test. Disguises, charades, mischief and heartbreak result, but in the end, all are much wiser in the ways of love! This brilliant Mozart opera is a masterpiece of comedy and a favorite the world over.
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Two officers boast of their fiancées’ faithfulness and a clever friend dares them to put it to the test. Disguises, charades, mischief and heartbreak result, but in the end, all are much wiser in the ways of love! This brilliant Mozart opera is a masterpiece of comedy and a favorite the world over.
