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News Articles: Opera

Karim Sulayman, Raha Mirzadegan, Coral Dolphin and John Taylor Ward perform in <em>Unholy Wars</em> in Charleston, S.C., in May.

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  • Arts & Life

An Arab American singer reframes music about the Crusades

A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.

June 20, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Karim Sulayman, Raha Mirzadegan, Coral Dolphin and John Taylor Ward perform in <em>Unholy Wars</em> in Charleston, S.C., in May.

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  • Arts & Life

An Arab American singer reframes music about the Crusades

A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.

June 20, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA.

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  • Arts & Life

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

June 07, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA.

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  • Arts & Life

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
American composer Carlisle Floyd, photographed at his first home, in which he composed his best known opera, <em>Susannah</em>, in Tallahassee, Fla. in 2009.

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Carlisle Floyd, a founding father of American opera, has died at age 95

Known primarily for his southern-flavored operas, Floyd helped create an American opera vernacular. His 1955 hit Susannah won the New York Music Critics Circle Award and helped launch his career.

October 01, 2021
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  • Tom Huizenga
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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  • Sarah Zaslaw

On Second Thought For Thursday, March 22, 2018

Opioid addiction is a major problem in Georgia. Several years ago, Governor Nathan Deal signed the "Good Samaritan" bill. The bill was created to...

September 25, 2018
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  • Adam Ragusea ,
  • Sean Powers ,
  • and 6 more
Opera singers Sherrill Milnes and Maria Zouves work to bring new talent to the opera scene in Savannah, Georgia.

Georgia Playlist: Sherrill Milnes And Maria Zouves

Opera singers Sherrill Milnes and Maria Zouves are married. Together they co-founded the Savannah VOICE Festival and as a couple have worked to expand...

May 02, 2018
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  • Sean Powers
GPB News NPR

On Second Thought For Thursday, May 19, 2016

Some were sentenced to prison. Some to jail. Others to home confinement. But many of the eleven Atlanta Public Schools educators who were convicted of...

May 19, 2016
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  • Celeste Headlee
Cast of the Toronto Light Opera Association production of "The Mikado" in 1947

Yellowface On Stage

"The Mikado" is a 1885 comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. The story takes place in Japan. It's a setting the authors used as a way to mask its...

May 19, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Linda Chen

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