Mableton native Joseph Lattanzi returns to The Atlanta Opera in style this month as the wily barber Figaro, the title character in Rossini’s rollicking comedy The Barber of Seville. The performances will be March 5-13 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. In a competitive market that is flooded with lyric baritones, Lattanzi is carving…
For Santiago Ballerini, performing with The Atlanta Opera is more than another stop as an in-demand tenor — it’s a homecoming that will reunite him with old friends. Ballerini returns to the company this week as Frederic, the hapless hero of The Pirates of Penzance. Ballerini’s road to becoming a favorite in Atlanta was a…
The curvy wood trimmings of the Alliance Theatre’s stunning new Coca-Cola Stage had barely settled into place before the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered the Woodruff Arts Center. On September 8, the Alliance is poised to return with Darlin’ Cory, a world premiere musical by Atlanta author-playwright Phillip DePoy and Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Kristian Bush of Sugarland…
Last week marked an event of monumental importance to both the cultural fabric of Atlanta and the international music industry at large. Sam Dixon, director of Clayton State University’s acoustically perfect, jewel box recital venue Spivey Hall, stepped down from his 17-year stewardship there. Dr. Terrence Johnson will serve as Spivey Hall’s interim executive and…
Several years ago, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principal harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson was listening to the radio as she drove, when she heard an BBC interview that would have a profound impact on her approach to her considerable art. “There was an Australian politician on,” Remy Johnson recalls. “Someone was challenging her on the quotas they…
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra brought its 2020–21 Behind the Curtain concert series to a joyful, yet peculiarly poignant conclusion with two pieces that explore the fragility of human existence through the bright, hopeful eyes of children. The event marked the house return of the largest contingent of instrumental forces heard at Symphony Hall since COVID-19…
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ignited a heat wave June 3 as French piano legend Jean-Yves Thibaudet joined conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya for Latin Fiesta, a high-voltage streamed concert inspired by the flavorful rhythms of the Spanish-speaking world. The program featured music that spanned the early 20th century to the newest of new offerings from some of…
The charismatic American conductor James Gaffigan returned to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for what proved to be a musically satiating and socially notable streamed concert on May 27. The event marked the first time the symphony has performed under more relaxed safety guidelines since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gone were the rows of…
Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for the first time since 2018, in a program that combined two familiar pieces with an enchanting composition from an unfairly marginalized composer who is finally beginning to draw some much-deserved attention. The program premiered online Thursday and was conducted by Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra music…
Conductor Peter Oundjian returned to Symphony Hall for the latest in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s excellent Behind the Curtain series of streamed performances. The concert was recorded in January for May 13 online premiere. This delightful program was comprised of three disparate pieces — two that bask in the breezy exuberance of youth, joined by a third…
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