The Atlanta Opera today named Israeli stage director Tomer Zvulun its new general manager and artistic director, effective June. 1. Zvulun succeeds general manager Dennis Hanthorn, who left rather abruptly last July.
Atlanta Opera’s 2013-14 season includes three operas; its High School Opera Institute, beginning with auditions in September; the fourth annual 24-Hour Opera Project, which moves to Nov. 1-2 to coincide with National Opera Week; and the 2013 Atlanta Opera Ball, a fundraiser titled “Puccini’s Palazzo.”
If you’re a composer, lyricist, singer, stage director or stage manager — with a yen for opera, Atlanta Opera wants you.
The Atlanta Opera has experienced more change in the past 10 years than at any other time in its its 33-year existence. Here’s a look back — and ahead.
Atlanta Opera is taking the children’s opera “Stone Soup” to Woodstock, Decatur and two intown venues.
Atlanta Opera Chorus Master Walter Huff will join the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty this fall as an adjunct associate professor of music in choral conducting.
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 [...]
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 [...]
