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In the May 2018 Issue of Opera News…
La Fille du Régiment ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 2/24/18 Chuchman and Ballerini, Marie and Tonio in Atlanta © Jeff Roffman ATLANTA OPERA offered a lighthearted version of Gaetano Donizetti’s Fille du Régiment as its second main-stage production of the 2017–18 season at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre (seen Feb. 24). Artistic and general director Tomer Zvulun infused this…
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ArtsATL Review: Soprano Julia Bullock pushes through opera stereotypes in Spivey Hall recital
Apr 10, 2018 Julia Bullock mixed the blues of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone into her program at Spivey Hall. (Photo by Dario Acosta) Soprano Julia Bullock has a dilemma. Opera is all about stereotypes a.k.a. fach — role classification based upon a classical singer’s vocal and sometimes physical attributes. (i.e. Does she look more like a…
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from www.artsatl.com…Review: Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham affirms the art of classical song at Schwartz recital
February 6, 2018 By Stephanie Adrian Some may say that classical art song is outdated, irrelevant to our modern times and lives. After all, it’s a musical form firmly rooted in the nineteenth century, poetry set to music, performed by an opera singer and a pianist. (Perhaps not as captivating as the latest royal…
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From the January Issue of Opera News Online: Der Fliegende Holländer
IN 1839, when the emergent city of Atlanta was not yet Atlanta, but a destination at the end of a railroad line, Richard Wagner and his wife Minna were an ocean away, in the midst of a harrowing sea voyage that landed them in the Norwegian port of Sandviken. It was an experience that prompted Wagner…
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From the December 2017 Issue of Opera News Online
The Seven Deadly Sins THE ATLANTA OPERA launched its 2017-18 season on October 1 at the Maison Rouge, with Atlanta native Jennifer Larmore starring in a stark rendition of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins. The production is part of this season’s AO Discoveries Series, which will complement this season’s mainstage fare—The Flying Dutchman, Daughter of the…
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A Case for the Music Critics
Graduate school field trips are rare. Gone are the yellow school buses of our youth that once promised a venture to the zoo or the pumpkin patch, releasing us from the confinement of a classroom. And yet, back in graduate school I had one professor who knew better, taking her opera history class of twenty-somethings…
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In www.artsatl.com…Spivey Hall kicks off season in perfect harmony with vocal group Chanticleer
Oct 10, 2017 Within his notorious Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer gave us “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” in which the rooster Chanticleer learns the hard way that one should never trust a flatterer. On Sunday afternoon, Spivey Hall opened its 2017–18 season with a performance by the men’s classical vocal ensemble that borrowed its name from Chaucer’s story.…
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In the August 2017 Issue of Opera News Online: La Finta Giardinera
La Finta Giardinera ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 5/20/17 http://www.operanews.com THE ATLANTA OPERA’S partnership with OnSite Opera to produce The Secret Gardener (La Finta Giardinera), young Mozart’s 1775 opera, was simultaneously a rousing success and an unfortunate victim of circumstances beyond its control (seen May 20). Hosted by Atlanta’s stunning Botanical Gardens, a thirty-acre oasis seated in the middle of…
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In the July Issue of Opera News Online: REVIEW of Turandot at the Atlanta Opera
THE ATLANTA OPERA celebrated ten years at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre—the roadhouse that occupies a majestic post at one of Atlanta’s busiest intersections—with Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot (seen May 7). Puccini’s last opera was the work that former AO general director Dennis Hanthorn selected to begin the opera’s residency at the Cobb a decade ago; the company’s…
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From the March 2017 Issue of Opera News
Don Pasquale ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 3/31/17 GAETANO DONIZETTI’S 1843 OPERA Don Pasquale is all about that bass: the basso buffo commedia dell’arte character who is manipulated by another low-voiced character, the scheming Dr. Malatesta. On March 31, The Atlanta Opera presented a 1950s Hollywood-ish version of Don Pasquale at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and rebranded the title character as…
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