Arthur Fagen

The Atlanta Opera puts a playful, wily spin on the smoldering “Carmen”

Year in Review: 2017 was strong for classical music and opera, marked by profound loss

Review: The Atlanta Opera puts an exciting cinematic touch on “The Flying Dutchman”

Review: The Atlanta Opera’s “Turandot” overcomes the holes in its plot with strong details

The Year in Review: ASO, The Atlanta Opera reach toward financial and artistic stability

Breaking news: The Atlanta Opera reaches three-year labor agreement with its orchestra

Review: The Atlanta Opera opens season with Mozart’s “Abduction From the Seraglio”

Review: The Atlanta Opera uses a strong cast for new twists on “Romeo and Juliet”

Review: For the Atlanta Opera’s “La Bohème,” familiarity breeds an engagingly comfortable zone

Q&A: Arthur Fagen discusses The Atlanta Opera’s desire to push boundaries, vision for the future

The Atlanta Opera puts a playful, wily spin on the smoldering “Carmen”

Year in Review: 2017 was strong for classical music and opera, marked by profound loss

Review: The Atlanta Opera puts an exciting cinematic touch on “The Flying Dutchman”

Review: The Atlanta Opera’s “Turandot” overcomes the holes in its plot with strong details

The Year in Review: ASO, The Atlanta Opera reach toward financial and artistic stability

Breaking news: The Atlanta Opera reaches three-year labor agreement with its orchestra

Review: The Atlanta Opera opens season with Mozart’s “Abduction From the Seraglio”

Review: The Atlanta Opera uses a strong cast for new twists on “Romeo and Juliet”

Review: For the Atlanta Opera’s “La Bohème,” familiarity breeds an engagingly comfortable zone

Q&A: Arthur Fagen discusses The Atlanta Opera’s desire to push boundaries, vision for the future

Writers at the Wrecking Bar: Snowden Wright and American Pop

Bleux Stockings Society: 3 Year Anniversary Show

Trine Søndergaard Exhibition: Guldnakke

William Taubman | Gorbachev: His Life and Times

Screening of Royal Opera House: La Bayadere

Mark GreshamMay 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 Car...

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Mark GreshamDecember 29, 2017

Looking back on 2017, the richness and continued potential of Atlanta's diverse musical offerings shone well throughout the year. For the Atlanta Symphony Orch...

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Mark GreshamNovember 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 R...

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Mark GreshamMay 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...

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Mark GreshamDecember 28, 2016

For the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the first half of 2016 was most distinctively marked by the culmination of its Robert Shaw Centennial, celebrating the late long-time music director who was responsible for turning the ASO into a full-time professional orchestra and recording multiple Grammy Award-winning albums with the orchestra and its chorus...

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Scott FreemanNovember 3, 2016

The Atlanta Opera continued to solidify its core foundation this week when it reached a three-year agreement with the union that represents musicians in its orchestra....

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Mark GreshamOctober 11, 2016

The Atlanta Opera opened its 2016-17 season on Saturday night with a performance of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Three performances remain in this production's run, on October 11, 14 and 16....

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Mark GreshamMay 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-c...

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Mark GreshamOctober 6, 2015

Maria Luigia Borsi and Gianluca Terranova in La Bohème. (Photos by Jeff Roffman) The Atlanta Opera has mounted Puccini's La Bohème no less than six times in i...

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Mark GreshamMay 26, 2015

Fagan says a city such as Atlanta deserves a "major" opera company. (Photo by Jeff Roffman) Arthur Fagen began his professional conducting career at age 21 wh...

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