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PUCCINI 2015-2016 OPERA SEASON @ 12:55 PM RUN TIME:  HR MIN The masterpiece by Puccini introduces us to Mimì and Rodolfo, young lovers living in Paris in the nineteenth century. Their group of bohemians (poets, painters, philosophers) traverses the emotional landscapes of love, poverty and ultimately, loss. This production by General & Artistic Director Tomer […]

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GIUSEPPE VERDI 2015-2016 HD OPERA SEASON SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 @ 8:00 PM RUN TIME: 2 HRS 45 MIN Text courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera website:  http://www.metopera.org CONDUCTOR: Marco Armiliato PRODUCTION: CAST:  Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Stefan Kocan   CAST SHEET & SYNOPSIS: David McVicar’s dramatic production, first seen in 2009, highlights the raw […]

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The Grand Tier Restaurant and Revlon Bar are located on the Met’s Grand Tier level. Both locations are open two hours before every performance, in an atmosphere highlighted by spectacular chandeliers and original masterpieces by Marc Chagall. Text courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera http://www.metopera.org POSSE PHOTOS:

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS RUN TIME: 2 hours 2014-2015 ASO SEASON JUNE 6 @ 7:30 PM It’s the ultimate story of love, seduction, and betrayal — Samson and Delilah. According to the Old Testament, Samson’s great strength embodied in his flowing hair made him invincible, until he met his greatest weakness in a woman named Dalila. She seduced him […]

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 2014-2015 OPERA SEASON OCTOBER 18, 2014 @ 3:00 PM RUN TIME: 3 HRS Lovebird servants Figaro and Susanna prepare to tie the knot and in a single day the world of sexual politics is forever changed. Far beyond a simple sex farce, the transcendent music of Mozart elevates this story of upstairs-downstairs […]

Shawn Rieschl Johnson – the Atlanta Opera Director of Production took us on a backstage tour before the performance.  Because it was a performance day, there was a lot of movement backstage by performers, stagehands, props, even set pieces. POSSE PHOTOS:

GEORGES BIZET 2014-2015 HD OPERA SEASON MARCH 7, 2010 @ 1:00 PM RUN TIME: 3 HRS 10 MIN One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the […]

The subject of one of Verdi’s greatest operas, the hunchbacked jester Rigoletto turns his mind to vengeance when he cannot protect the person he most loves from the person he most loathes. Recently premiered at Boston Lyric Opera, this new production directed by General & Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun, was hailed by the Boston Globe […]

GIACOMO PUCCINI 2014-2015 ATLANTA OPERA SEASON NOVEMBER 16 @ 3:00 PM RUN TIME: 3 HRS For more than a century, audiences have been moved by Puccini’s haunting story of passion, honor, and sacrifice. The tragic tale of lovely Butterfly touches us all, as she experiences a metamorphosis from trusting girl in love to grown woman faced […]

GIUSEPPE VERDI 2014-2015 HD OPERA SEASON OCTOBER 11, 2014 @ 12:55 PM RUN TIME: 3 HRS 15 MIN Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić’s doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s masterful adaptation of […]

Music by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Cesare Sterbini Conducted by Craig Kier Directed by José Maria Condemi Sung in Italian with projected English translations The wily barber Figaro aids Count Almaviva in wooing the radiant maiden, Rosina. With masterful disguises and hilarious antics, romance unfurls right under the nose of an aghast Dr. Bartolo, intent […]

Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giacomo Puccini and Luigi Illica Conducted by Carl and Sally Gable Music Director Arthur Fagen Directed by Tomer Zvulun Sung in Italian with projected English translations Lies, lust and corruption turn a tale of love into a struggle for survival in Puccini’s Tosca.  Amid the bloodshed of revolutionary Rome, the […]

GIOACHINO PUCCINI 2012-2013 OPERA SEASON MAY 3, 2013  @ 8 PM RUN TIME: 2 HRS 45 MIN COBB ENERGY CENTER ATLANTA, GA Nicknamed “The Italian Mozart,” Rossini wrote The Italian Girl in Algiers when he was only 21 years old, and it is considered one of his most successful comedies. A story set inside a […]

GIUSEPPE VERDI 2012-2013 OPERA SEASON APRIL 8, 2013 @ 7:30PM RUN TIME: 2 HRS 50 MIN War has broken out between the Babylonians and Israelites. The Israelites have captured Fenena, younger daughter of the Babylonian King, Nabucco. In revenge, Nabucco vows to destroy Jerusalem, aided by the vengeful Abigaille. CONDUCTOR: Nicola Luisotti PRODUCTION: Daniele Abbado […]

GIUSEPPE VERDI 2012-2013 OPERA SEASON MARCH 10, 2013 @ 3 PM RUN TIME: 2 HRS  45 MIN COBB ENERGY CENTER ATLANTA, GA In this beautiful and tragic love story, Violetta Valéry, mistress of a wealthy baron, gets swept away by Alfredo Germont. Though they leave Violetta’s chaotic previous life, Alfredo’s father, Giorgio Germont, convinces Violetta […]

GEORGES BIZET 2012-2013 OPERA SEASON NOVEMBER 18, 2012 @ 3 PM RUN TIME  3 HRS COBB ENERGY CENTER ATLANTA, GA In celebration of the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, the Atlanta Opera’s second opera of the 2012-2013 season will be the tale of opera’s most beloved “fallen woman,” La traviata. Based on La dame aux Camélias(1852), a […]

GIUSEPPE VERDI NOVEMBER 2012 RUN TIME: Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto Fondamenta Duodo o Barbarigo – S. Marco 2504 Facing the Grand Canal, witnesses testify to the building of this noble Venetian Palace around the 15th Century and to the authenticity of the Venetian Byzantine elements dating from the 12th and 13th centuries. Three staterooms adorn the […]

PETER ASH 2011-2012 OPERA SEASON MARCH 11, 2012 @ 3 PM RUN TIME 2 HRS 30 MIN COBB ENERGY CENTER ATLANTA, GA A young boy named Charlie finds a “golden ticket” admitting him into Willy Wonka’s top-secret chocolate factory where he encounters chocolate rivers, inflating blueberries, magic elevators and other delights. Based on the book Charlie […]

PROJECT: DANIEL DVORAK/JAN DVORAK LIBRETTO: LORENZO DA PONTE STAGE DESIGN: DANIEL DVORAK MARIONETTES: ANNA CIGANOVA DIRECTOR: KAREL BROZEK 8:ooPM RUN TIME: 2 HOURS Mozart composed the “opera of operas” Don Giovanni especially for Prague, where he personally conducted its first performance in 1787 in the Estates Theatre.  At present the dramatic repertoire Prague offers a […]

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 2010-2011 OPERA SEASON OCTOBER 16, 2010 @ 2:00 PM ESTATES THEATRE, PRAGUE RUN TIME: 3 HRS 30 MIN CONDUCTOR: Robert Jindra DIRECTOR: Martin Čičvák STAGE DESIGN: Tom Ciller COSTUMES: Marija Havran CHORUS MASTER: Martin Buchta DRAMATURGY: Ondřej Hučín CAST: Pavla Vykopalova, Katarzyna Kuncio, Martin Homrich, Svatopluk Sem, Yukiko Srejmova Kinjo, Frantisek Zahradnicek Mozart’s famous opera, Cosi fan tutte, or “Women […]

GIACOMO PUCCINI 2010-2011 OPERA SEASON OCTOBER 8, 2010 @  8PM RUN TIME: 3 HRS COBB ENERGY CENTER ATLANTA, GA A staple of romantic opera repertoire, La bohème. is a story of love in its greatest form. In snowy Paris, six young penniless artists are full of idealism and beauty, but they soon encoun- ter the […]