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Atlanta Opera Film Studio to Release 18 New Opera Films

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The Atlanta Opera Film Studio is set to release 18 new cinematic opera films. Past Atlanta Opera productions such as, “La bohème,” “The Anonymous Lover,” and “Das Rheingold,” have been developed from live performances into richly produced films which will be available to watch on the company’s streaming platform. Beginning Sept. 25, subscribers of the Film Studio will receive access {…}

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The Atlanta Opera Names Chorus Masters for 2025-26 Season

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(Credit: Jesús Cornejo) The Atlanta Opera has announced its Chorus Masters for its upcoming season. The company revealed that Daniel Chervinsky, Lisa Hasson, and Walter Huff will take on the positions of Chorus Masters throughout the 2025 and 2026 season. Chervinsky will serve as Chorus Master for Verdi’s “La traviata” on Nov. 8 – 16, 2025, while Huff will serve as {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

The Atlanta Opera 2025 Review: Semele

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(Photo credit Raftermen Photography) The Atlanta Opera (TAO) closed their 2024-25 mainstage season with Georg Frideric Handel’s 1744 semi-oratorio, or quasi-opera, “Semele.” General Director Tomer Zvulun structured the season around art’s transnational commonplace, the Hero’s Journey. But interestingly, all four works selected also play with genre and they address the nearly unanswerable question, ‘what is opera, anyway?’ They began with {…}

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Alliance Theatre & The Atlanta Opera Announce Cast & Creative Team for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

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Alliance Theatre and The Atlanta Opera have named the cast and creative team for its upcoming co-produce and new staging of “Fiddler on the Roof.” Leading the cast is Itzik Cohen in the role of Tevye, and Debbie Gravitte as Golde. Deborah Bowman, Joanna Daniels, Kylie Dickinson, Coby Getzug, Maya Jacobson, Eli Mayer, Mia Pinero, Oliver Prose, Jeremy Radin, Rabbi {…}

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‘Rose, Tree (Rosenbaum and Li)’ Wins The Atlanta Opera’s 2025 96-Hour Opera Festival Competition

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The Atlanta Opera has named Dina Pruzhansky and Hai-Ting Chinn the winners of the 96-Hour Opera Festival competition. The winning piece was the duo’s “Rose, Tree (Rosenbaum and Li),” an opera scene set in 1967 that explores the dissolution of cultural boundaries between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and an American-born Chinese woman as they support their respective children’s interracial relationship. {…}

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The Atlanta Opera Names New Principal Conductor

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The Atlanta Opera has announced Maestro Iván López Reynoso as its new Principal Conductor. The company said that “when Maestro Reynoso took the podium for ‘Macbeth,’ we knew something extraordinary had begun. His artistry, passion, and deep theatrical intuition made a lasting impression—and now it’s official: he’ll lead us into the future, beginning with the 2025–26 season.” Reynoso will succeed {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

The Atlanta Opera 2024-25 Review: ‘Siegfried’

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(Photo credit Raftermen Photography) Your reviewer spent childhood in the hills about fifty miles west of Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta then and Atlanta now constitute two different places. In the before-time that preceded the internet, Georgia’s small-town folk with their gaze fixed towards the rest of the world viewed Atlanta as the portal to everything else, not least by way of {…}

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Lauren Snouffer Lead Atlanta Opera’s Production of ‘Semele’

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The Atlanta Opera is set to present a new production of George Frideric Handel’s “Semele.” The production, which opens on June 7, 2025, at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and runs through June 15, 2025 will be directed and produced by The Atlanta Opera’s Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General and Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun. Zvulum blends modern mythology and theatrical {…}

Streaming

The Atlanta Opera Offers Live Stream Replay of ‘Siegfried’

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(Photo by Felipe Barral) The Atlanta Opera is providing an exclusive live stream replay of “Siegfried.” The stream of the May 2, 2025 performance started streaming for a limited time on May 4, 2025. The production stars Stefan Vinke in the title role, was conducted by Roberto Kalb, and was directed by Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & Artistic Director {…}