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News Articles: Atlanta Opera

Atlanta Opera costume shop employees begin making masks for healthcare workers.

Atlanta Arts Community Uses Talent To Help Save Lives

Performances may have been canceled, but the Atlanta arts community isn’t sitting idly at home during the pandemic. The Atlanta Opera and the Alliance...

March 28, 2020
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By:
  • Blis Savidge
A scene fom the 2017 Glimmerglass production of 'Porgy and Bess': the men of Catfish Row gather around the craps game. The Atlanta Opera is staging 'Porgy and Bess' for five performances between Mar. 7 and 15.

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George Gershwin's 'Porgy And Bess' And Its Complicated Legacy Around Race

While not many operas were written in English, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is one of the most celebrated — and perhaps the most controversial....

February 28, 2020
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
Atlanta Opera music director Arthur Fagen

Conductor Arthur Fagen On Scandalous, Challenging 'Salome'

"A psychological thriller draped in lust, incest, power and seduction." That's the Atlanta Opera blurb for the company's new production of Salome ,...

January 23, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
Joseph De Rocher, the death row inmate, is played by Michael Mayes in the Atlanta production of "Dead Man Walking."

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Violence, Trauma, Radical Empathy In The Atlanta Opera's 'Dead Man Walking'

The Atlanta Opera's production of "Dead Man Walking" tells the story of Sister Helen Prejean and her relationship with death row inmate Joseph de Rocher...

January 31, 2019
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw and
  • Virginia Prescott
Actor Michael Mayes plays Joseph De Rocher in the Atlanta Opera's production of "Dead Man Walking."

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Sister Helen Prejean On Complexity Of Humanity, Death Penalty In Atlanta Opera 'Dead Man Walking'

For decades, Sister Helen Prejean has been a prominent opponent of the death penalty. She started her prison ministry in the 1980s, serving as a...

January 31, 2019
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By:
  • Elena Rivera ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • and 2 more

Is World Peace Possible?

During World War I on Christmas Day, French, British and German soldiers laid down their arms, and climbed out of the trenches to exchange holiday...

November 03, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Lindsay Thomas

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