Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Powerful, socially relevant drama was in store on Saturday when the Atlanta Opera presented its opening night performance of Dead Man Walking, a contemporary operatic masterpiece by compose…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:04PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
The Brits enjoy their meat pies. They have for centuries. As essential foodstuff for travelers in Tudor times, the pastry was just a vessel for protecting the meat, with clarified butter pou…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMMonday, May 14, 2018
The new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at Symphony Hall represents a historic collaboration between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre. Humbly treading a pa…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
The Atlanta Opera kicked off its penultimate main-stage production of the 2017–18 season Saturday night with a traditional operatic favorite, George Bizet’s Carmen, directed by Brenn…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
On Sunday’s cloudy and misty afternoon, the Riverside Chamber Players performed a concert of music by Brahms and Schoenfield in the sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlant…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
On Saturday evening the Atlanta Opera presented the first of four performances of Gaetano Donizetti’s two-act comic opera, The Daughter of the Regiment, at the Cobb Energy Performing A…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
On Saturday evening The Atlanta Opera opened its main-stage series of the 2017–18 season with the world premiere of an excellent, intriguing new production of Richard Wagner’s The Fl…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 08:59AMFriday, October 20, 2017
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed music by Bernstein, Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Ravel, led by guest conductor Ludovic Morlot and with violinist Ra…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:17PMFriday, June 23, 2017
Born in 1934 in New York City, roots music legend Frank Hamilton is an American folk musician, collector of folk music and educator. As a performer, Hamilton spent much of the late forties a…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:01PMFriday, May 12, 2017
On Thursday evening the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presented a performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice at Symphony Hall. ASO music director Robert Spano cond…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 03:46PMFriday, May 5, 2017
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of music by Mozart, Rameau and Haydn led by guest conductor Nicholas McGegan. The same program will b…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 04:28PMThursday, May 4, 2017
On Tuesday evening the Atlanta Opera presented the second of four performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. It was a successful production, …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:59PMThursday, March 30, 2017
On Tuesday evening at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, the Atlanta Opera presented a performance of Don Pasquale, a comic opera by early 19th-century Italian composer Gaetano Donizett…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 03:01PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Earlier this month, the Atlanta Opera announced its upcoming 2017–18 season, which will combine classics along with productions that push the boundaries. That formula proved successful thi…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:01PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
This past Sunday, the Metropolitan Opera National Council (MONC) held their annual Southeast Region audition finals at Spivey Hall. This year’s Southeast Region finals featured 15 youn…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:10PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
This past Thursday, the Atlanta Opera opened its latest Discovery Series production, María de Buenos Aires, at La Maison Rouge inside Paris on Ponce. The Eastside burlesque lounge proved …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:01AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
On Saturday evening The Atlanta Opera presented a stirring and ambitious performance of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night by American composer Kevin Puts.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:34PMMonday, May 9, 2016
This past Saturday evening at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, the Atlanta Opera opened its final production of the season, Romeo and Juliette, by 19th-century French composer Charles…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMTuesday, March 8, 2016
On Saturday evening the Atlanta Opera presented the opening night performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s two-act comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. It is the
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:37PMFriday, February 5, 2016
The Atlanta Opera announced its upcoming 2016-17 season today, which will feature four main stage productions for the first time in six years. The season
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:00AMFriday, November 13, 2015
On Wednesday night, the Atlanta Opera presented the first of four performances of David T. Little’s one-act opera Soldier Songs at Georgia State University’s Rialto Center for
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:11PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Libby Whittemore is Atlanta’s “queen of cabaret,” a singer who has crafted a 40-year career singing the standards, starring in stage musicals and, for a
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:44PMSaturday, June 6, 2015
On Thursday, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed a concert version of the opera Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns. Music director Robert Spano led the combined
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:05AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
This past weekend, The Atlanta Opera presented three performances of Three Decembers, a 90-minute opera with music by Jake Heggie and a libretto by Gene
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:04PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
The Atlanta Chamber Players opened its 2014–15 season on Tuesday at one of the group’s favorite haunts, the New American Shakespeare Tavern on Peachtree Street.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 04:48PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Fifty years ago last month, the Wilderness Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, creating a legal definition of wilderness
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:43PM 
