“We need new stories.” It’s a cry that has been heard repeatedly in the last several seasons as the opera industry works to address long-neglected issues of diversity and equality on our stages. For bass Morris Robinson, artistic advisor to Atlanta Opera and its pivotal 96-Hour Opera Project, the phrase has become a personal mantra….
“Georgia on My Mind” is one of the well-known songs featured in “Love Letters to Atlanta,” a new video series launched on The Atlanta Opera’s Spotlight Media streaming service. Sung by mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as a tribute to her home state, it’s a perfect illustration of the series and the company’s innovative pandemic-era programming. In…
Jeremy Denk (pictured above), winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and regarded as one of America’s foremost pianists, performs virtually via Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Friday (January 29). The casual concert will be broadcast from Denk’s living room and will feature conversation along with preludes and fugues from Back’s…
The Atlanta Music Festival, with roots dating back more than 100 years, will begin its 2021 edition Monday (January 250 with daily online performances. This year’s festival will focus on expanding the understanding of social and environmental justice through the power of the arts. The festival will be centered around Proctor Creek and the West…
The Atlanta Opera plans to have performances this fall and next spring — whether live, virtual or both — and has created an ensemble of internationally known singers who live in and around Atlanta and are without work because of Covid-19. The Atlanta Opera Company Players includes Rome native Jamie Barton and Atlanta native Morris…
Travel on SC Highway 171 south from Charleston for about eight miles and you’ll arrive at Folly Beach, a simple seaside town with a lighthouse on one end and plucky surfers dotting the water along the coast. You can get fresh shrimp at Crosby’s or fish on the pier all afternoon long. This was George…
“When I started out — being a big black guy from the South — people wanted to see me sing ‘Old Man River’ and be cast as Porgy,” says Atlanta-born opera singer Morris Robinson. “I wanted to dissolve that mentality.” After a couple of successful decades, he’s helped erase some of the racial stereotypes. Robinson…
The ASO’s performance last night of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio (composed and revised between 1805–14) was a timely meditation on tyranny, love and freedom. It traces in 18th-century Spain the story of Don Florestan’s imprisonment at the hands of evil governor Don Pizarro, followed by his rescue by his wife Leonore, who is disguised for much…
Operatic bass Morris Robinson, the 2015-16 artist-in-residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will perform a community outreach recital Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta. The program will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with musical selections that reflect broadly upon themes of human…
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff, led by music director Robert Spano, with soprano Tatiana Monogarova, bass Morris Robinson and pianist Simon Trpčeski as and featured soloists. The program was repeated on Saturday evening. Prior to Thursday’s concert, the usual pre-concert lecture…
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