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www.artsATL.com Review: Trumpeter Chris Botti seduces with jazzy pop mix in concert with Atlanta Symphony
By Stephanie Adrian In 2008, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti produced and recorded his Grammy-nominated concert recording, Chris Botti in Boston with the Boston Pops Orchestra. The formula was foolproof, featuring duets with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Lucia Micarelli and such pop icons as Sting, John Mayer and Steven Tyler. Known as a marathon performer who takes the stage…
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In the May Issue of Opera News: Review of Maria de Buenos Aires at the Atlanta Opera
Atlanta Opera 2/4/17 PARIS AND THE MUSIC of Astor Piazzolla rendezvoused on February 4 at Atlanta’s Maison Rouge for the tango operita Maria de Buenos Aires. It was the latest offering in the Atlanta Opera’s Discoveries Series, general and artistic director Tomer Zvulun’s initiative to take the opera out of the opera house and explore more adventurous…
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www.ArtsATL Review: Vocalist Miah Persson improvises solo concert, brings life to Schumann’s songs of Clara
Swedish soprano Miah Persson and pianist Malcolm Martineau performed as a duo at Spivey Hall. Every composer must have a muse, his raison d’être. For Robert Schumann that was Clara Wieck, the daughter of his piano teacher. Theirs was a forbidden romance, and Schumann’s longing for Clara manifested itself in both word and song. She…
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In the February 2017 Issue of Opera News Online…Silent Night at the Atlanta Opera
Atlanta Opera 11/5/16 IN HONOR OF VETERAN’S DAY, Atlanta Opera offered Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Silent Night, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre (seen Nov. 5). Silent Night is a thoughtful opera with a libretto by Mark Campbell that recounts a Christmas Eve ceasefire on a Belgian battlefield during the first months of World War I. Silent Night,…
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In the January Edition of Opera News Online
Die Entführung aus dem Serail ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 10/8/16 AS ITS 2016-17 SEASON OPENER, the Atlanta Opera dusted off and conservatively re-invented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1782 Singspiel, The Abduction from the Seraglio, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre (seen Oct. 8). It’s a work that hasn’t been produced in Atlanta for at least a decade and…
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From the July Issue of Opera News Online: AO’s Romeo and Juliet
Roméo et Juliette Visit the Opera News website @ http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2016/7/In_Review/ATLANTA__Rom%C3%A9o_et_Juliette.html ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 5/7/16 ON MAY 7, the Atlanta Opera offered Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, rounding out its 2015-16 season. Atlanta’s opera company, which achieved the highest-grossing production in its history this spring with Pirates of Penzance, made a significant investment…
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From the June Issue of Opera News Online: The Pirates of Penzance
3/5/16 ON MARCH 5, Atlanta Opera offered an exceedingly satisfying production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. It was the first time that Pirates had been presented by the company, but ticket sales accelerated so rapidly here that the company was compelled to offer a fifth performance this…
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Memorial Day in the Low Country
Charleston, SC – land of Pat Conroy, shrimp and grits, and George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess– I paid homage to you this weekend. I wandered the streets of Folly Beach and found Dubose Heyward’s home on W. Ashley, desolate and faded. I wanted to see where the insurance salesman who penned Porgy had lived. I…
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Review: Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is unforgettable in epic Spivey Hall recital
May 3, 2016 Just a few months after the trustees of Spivey Hall broke ground south of Atlanta, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel made groundbreaking news as the recipient of the Lieder Prize at the BBC Singer of the World competition in Cardiff, Wales. It was a big story back then as Welshman Terfel and Russian Dmitri Hvorostovsky battled…
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Review: Christiane Karg takes a magical journey through European songbook at Spivey Hall
April 5, 2016 By STEPHANIE ADRIAN Virtuosity is the technical mastery of art, particularly music, and it was on display Saturday evening at Spivey Hall when Bavarian soprano Christiane Karg and Scottish pianist Malcolm Martineau offered a Liederabend entitled “Nostalgia — European Dream.” It was a program that was infused with careful thought and symmetry, beginning with Hugo…
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