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Atlanta Opera General Director Resigns
Dennis Hanthorn, Zurich General Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2004, resigned from his position last week. From my vantage point the opera has had many successes under his leadership – including a strategic move to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre – and has mounted some very fine productions. Highlights for me? Orfeo with David…
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13 rue des Beaux-Arts
The Santa Fe Opera will premiere Theodore Morrison’s new opera ‘Oscar’ next summer. It won’t be witty and light-hearted in the style of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest though. The libretto by John Cox is based on Wilde’s poem from prison, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Oscar Wilde died here in 1900, a…
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Dutchman Controversy lands at Bayreuth
Zachary Woolfe covers the latest controversy at Bayreuth – the cancellation of Evgeny Nikitin- in this weekend’s edition of the International Herald Tribune. Today I visited the apartment at 14 rue Jacob where Wagner composed ‘Flying Dutchman’ in the winter of 1841-1842. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/music/evgeny-nikitin-and-wagners-flying-dutchman.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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From the Opera Garnier in Paris
Taken from the Cafe de la Paix. Napoleon III ordered this new opera house as part of the great Parisian Reconstruction project. It was completed in 1875.
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Greetings from France
The entrance to the Sun King’s Royal Opera at Versailles. Unfortunately admission to the opera house was interdit this day.
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Opera News ONLINE – July Issue
Don Giovanni ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 4/28/12 Atlanta Opera rounded out its current season, after taking a chance on Peter Ash’s The Golden Ticket in March, with Mozart’s Don Giovanni (seen April 28). While the staging was rather bland and involved only basic traffic patterns, the most stellar aspect of the production was conductor Arthur Fagen’s…
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Review: Ailing throat doesn’t stop incandescent Kristin Chenoweth from dazzling with vocal versatility
June 25, 2012 By Stephanie Adrian Kristin Chenoweth: just a girl from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Singer Kristin Chenoweth’s Friday-night Atlanta debut at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre was touch and go, due to a tracheal infection that forced her to cancel shows in Chicago, Minneapolis and Nashville. Fans finally got word Thursday via her…
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The Golden Ticket Review – Opera News May 2012 Issue
ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 3/3/12 Atlanta Opera courageously took a chance on Peter Ash’s new opera The Golden Ticket this season in an attempt to draw younger audiences to the genre. Based on Roald Dahl’s literary classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with a libretto by Dahl biographer Donald Sturrock, The Golden Ticket is a comic…
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Atlanta Opera announces 2012-2013 season
Atlanta Opera announces 2012-2013 season. Andrew Alexander outlines AO’s coming season in Creative Loafing.
Stephanie Adrian 