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New and Improved Source for Arts News and Reviews in Atlanta
http://www.artsatl.com/ Take at look at the new website for ArtsCriticATL! It’s got a new name and a new look. Music writers include Stephanie Adrian, Jimmy Paulk, and Mark Gresham.
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Janai Brugger wins Met Auditions – Zachary Woolfe’s Review
Music Review A Night of Winners and Almost Winners Metropolitan Opera Auditions Select Five Singers Jennifer Taylor for The New York Times Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals This year’s winners, from left: Margaret Mezzacappa, Janai Brugger, Anthony Clark Evans, Matthew Grills and Andrey Nemzer on Sunday at the Met. By ZACHARY WOOLFE Published:…
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Susan Graham in Atlanta
Graham’s Atlanta recital yesterday afternoon was truly flawless. Her unifying theme was “ladies” and she covered it all: the Virgin Mary, Goethe’s Mignon, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth… My review was posted this evening on ArtsCriticATL. Review: Lieder, mélodie flow gracefully from refined mezzo-soprano Susan Graham at Spivey Hall January 23, 2012 By Stephanie Adrian …
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Opera Education for Kids
Director of Education at the Atlanta Opera Emmalee Iden has created a study guide for Atlanta music educators to go along with the AO premiere of a new children’s opera called Rabbit Tales. My 2008 review of AO’s Hansel & Gretel for Opera News is excerpted in association with a number of potential lessons that educators could implement within the classroom. (link…
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Atlanta Opera Opens 2011-12 Season with Lucia
AO opens its 2011-12 season with Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor on November 12. I’ll be reviewing this production for Opera News. Georgia Jarman, who starred as the three Heroines in English National Opera’s February production of Tales of Hoffman, will sing the title role.
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A Fabulous Scarpia: Cornell MacNeil
Below is a link to the New York Times feature about baritone Cornell MacNeil who passed away last Friday. A must-see: his Scarpia in the 1985 Zeffirelli production with Hildegard Behrens. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/arts/music/cornell-macneil-operatic-baritone-dies-at-88.html
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Atlanta Opera Review – July Issue of Opera News
Così Fan Tutte ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 4/9/11 Atlanta Opera rounded out its 2010–11 season with Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte (seen Apr. 9). Director José Maria Condemi updated the action to pre-World War I Naples in order to provide more plausibility to the staged departure of Ferrando and Guglielmo as they pretend to leave their sweethearts,…
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June 2011 Opera News: Review of Atlanta Opera’s Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 2/26/11 George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess is a period piece that provides a glimpse of life on Catfish Row — a former Charlestown mansion converted to a black tenement house — and a goldmine of early-twentieth-century music that remains as lyric and operatic as ever. Atlanta Opera presented…
Stephanie Adrian 