MacHeath is back in town.
The Atlanta Opera’s Molly Blank Big Tent series returns to the grounds of Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with two new world premiere adaptations, a flamenco-style The Threepenny Carmen, based on Bizet’s masterwork and audience favorite, and The Threepenny Opera, a reduction of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “play with music.” Playing in repertory, they run through May 9 and will be filmed for release on Spotlight Media, the Opera’s digital streaming service.
Check out photos below!
Threepenny Opera
Jay Hunter Morris as MacHeath, right, with Susanne Burgess as Lucy 
Tom Key as a Mr. Rogers-like narrator 
Kelly Kaduce, as daughter Polly Peachum 
Joshua Conyers as Police Chief “Tiger” Brown with Kevin Burdette, in the role of Peachum 
Gina Perregrino as Jenny
Threepenny Carmen
Megan Marino as Carmen 
Jasmine Habersham as Micaëla 
Richard Trey Smagur as Don José 
Megan Marino, as Carmen, in the booth, flanked by dancers 
Michael Mayes as Escamillo
About the shows
For both shows, the Big Tent will be transformed into The Threepenny Bar, a bawdy East Texas barroom where the barstools are filled with thieves, hustlers, lovers and fools. Atlanta theater icon Tom Key has featured speaking roles in both productions.
Simmering jealousies boil over in a new adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Zvulun in partnership with The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. The Threepenny Opera, performed under the baton of conductor Francesco Milioto, is sung in English with English narration and supertitles.
Hanging on a love triangle with the enchanting gypsy Carmen at its center, The Threepenny Carmen is a new adaptation by Zvulun and internationally acclaimed conductor Jorge Parodi and featuring flamenco superstar Sonia Olla. This show will be sung in French with English narration and supertitles.
About those tickets…
Tickets can be purchased online at atlantaopera.org or by calling 404-881-8885. Tickets will be sold in both two-person pairs and the popular 4-person “pods” from the fall Big Tent Series, with prices ranging from $25 to $110 per person. Limited, $25 “standing room only” tickets will be available for select performances. Availability is limited due to capacity constraints and distancing requirements.
Visit AtlantaOpera.org to learn about the health and safety measures, performance times, and more.
Photo credit: Ken Howard
