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Review: Tenor Nicholas Phan offers a dazzling kaleidoscope of sound at Spivey Hall recital
November 11, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian Lyric tenor Nicholas Phan is no stranger to Atlanta. He has visited several times to sing leading roles in Atlanta Opera productions of “Carmina Burana,” “La Cenerentola” and ”Don Giovanni,” as well as concerts with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park. A passionate…
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Preview: Artistic Director Sam Dixon focuses Spivey Hall’s season on the sounds of “Clara”
November 1, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian Step backstage at Spivey Hall and you’ll see rows and rows of head shots that ornament the walls, likenesses of the incomparable musicians who have performed there over the past 22 years. Patroness Emilie Spivey didn’t live to witness the groundbreaking for the hall in 1991, but her influence…
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Review: Jessica Rivera, Kelley O’Connor team with Robert Spano for evening of new music at KSU
October 21, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian Kelley O’Connor (left) and Jessica Rivera Self-proclaimed “ladies of new music” Jessica Rivera and Kelley O’Connor performed a song recital with pianist Robert Spano, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s music director, at Kennesaw State University’s Bailey Performance Center on Thursday evening. The trio inaugurated its recital tour in Berkeley, California, last…
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ArtsATL Review: Capitol City Opera gives fresh talent a voice with Puccini’s classic “La Bohème”
September 9, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian Jinho Park (left) and Brendan Callahan-Fitzgerald in “La Bohème.” (Photo by Nicholas Cole) The life of an aspiring opera singer is a precarious one. After completing conservatory training, the singer ideally sets out to audition for roles with the intention of setting the world ablaze with his or her…
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30 Under 30: For cellist Jennifer Humphreys and Atlanta Symphony, lucky number was 13
August 26, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian Jennifer Humphreys is one of the youngest players in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. At 29, she has achieved the status of cellist in a major symphony orchestra, an uncommon feat for one so young. Raised in Owensboro, Kentucky, Humphreys is the oldest of three children, and both her parents are…
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In the July Issue of Opera News: Italian Girl in Algiers Review
L’Italiana in Algeri ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 4/27/13 Atlanta Opera synchronized the conclusion of its search for a new general director — a position that Tomer Zvulun will take on as of June 1 — with the presentation of its final production for the season, Rossini’s Italiana in Algeri (seen Apr. 27). The opera, which tells…
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Atlanta Opera to host high school spring performance
Atlanta Opera to host high school spring performance.
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June 1955 Review of ‘Mese Mariano’-U.S. Premiere
The Spoleto Festival is on! Next week I’ll take a road trip to Charleston to see a rarely performed opera by Umberto Giordano, ‘Mese Mariano’.
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Verdi for Kids
Author Helen Bauer and Chicago Review Press have commemorated the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth with a dynamic volume geared toward kids about this singular composer’s life and music. The book includes prose, fabulous photos, and sidebars about everything from Italian cuisine to counterpoint. Just in time for summer, when the kids have oodles…
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ArtsATL Review: Isabel Leonard delivers fitting finale to season of great vocalists at Spivey Hall
March 25, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian The sound of the human voice is the result of breath flowing against an individual’s vocal cords, vocal folds closing and opening at regular intervals, essentially chopping the airstream into small pulses. Remarkable when one stops to think about how that pulsing air and vibration from an instrument so…
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