25 stories by "Mark Gresham"
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 compo…
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…
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 Brenna …
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…
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…
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 Flyi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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 this …
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…
This past Thursday, the Atlanta Opera opened its latest Discovery Series production, MarÃa de Buenos Aires, at La Maison Rouge inside Paris on Ponce. The Eastside burlesque lounge p…
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.
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…
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
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
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 …
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
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
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
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.
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
