Energy of the Stage
Story by Noel Morris There was a time when combining church and theater was considered an act of indecency. Early performances of Handel’s Messiah, for example, scandalized upstanding citizens of …
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Story by Noel MorrisPhotos by Rafterman Photography Fierce. Wounded. Spellbinding. Frida Kahlo lived life like a work of art. With almost unnatural zeal she pursued her greatest passions: self-expression, Mexico, …
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“West Side Story” was a game changer and cultural milestone when it premiered on Broadway in 1957. The Leonard Bernstein dance musical has, over the years, made its way from theater to the classical stage and, now, to The Atlanta Opera.
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Atlanta Opera’s YARDBIRD tells Charlie Parker’s life-and-death tale as a ghost story wrapped in America’s music, opioid crisis and racial inequities.
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“Sweeney Todd,” Stephen Sondheim’s masterwork, is an entertainment with a dark soul that dances on the precipice between opera and musical theater. See it at The Atlanta Opera.
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Three’s a crowd in Bizet’s popular “Carmen,” which remains as tantalizing and provocative as the deadly love triangle it features, first staged almost a century and a half ago. See it April 28-May 6 at The Atlanta Opera.
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Out of one horror, many stories. The Atlanta Opera’s “Out of Darkness: Two Remain” tells the story of two Holocaust survivors — Polish poet and writer Krystyna Zywulska and Gad Beck, a gay German Jew.
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With its demanding score, Gaetano Donizetti’s romantic comedy “The Daughter of the Regiment” makes acrobats of its singers. The Atlanta Opera performs the piece in French with English supertitles Feb. 24-March 4.
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Real life, a fantastical imagination and theater collide to create Atlanta Opera’s brand-new “Flying Dutchman.”
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“Seven Deadly Sins” is a smart, ironic and compact satire about a girl who goes from city to city to earn enough money to build a home for her family.
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