A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Atlanta Opera’s Director’s Note
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”— William Shakespeare, The Tempest I’m so grateful for dreams. With reality kicking …
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The Atlanta Opera: Singing and sewing for the community
Photo courtesy The Atlanta Opera. In a time when many businesses have shuttered their doors or are open with limited service, The Atlanta Opera has found a way to continue …
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The Atlanta Opera postpones May 2020 performances
The Atlanta Opera announced on Friday the postponement of its May 2020 productions: Madama Butterfly and Glory Denied. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Madama Butterfly has been rescheduled to …
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HOW WEST SIDE STORY MADE THE LEAP TO OPERA
“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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ADDICT. ALCOHOLIC. JAZZ GENIUS.
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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SWING YOUR RAZOR HIGH, SWEENEY!
“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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IN ‘CARMEN,’ THREE’S A CROWD
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
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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A HIGH C’s ADVENTURE
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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The Atlanta Opera’s 18/19 season
Atlanta Opera’s 2018/19 season opens with “West Side Story” and closes with “La Traviata.” It includes Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking,” a new “Eugene Onegin,” and jazz and tango Discoveries series works.
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