Atlanta Opera Announces Their 2011-12 Season 2011/01/27 MEMBER LOG IN REGISTER NOW! Atlanta Opera Announces Their 2011-12 Season Feedback Printer-Friendly E-Mail Article Broadway Tours Off-Bway London Enter Your E-Mail Address: Thursday, January 27, 2011; Posted: 12:01 PM - by BWW News Desk Latest News Share | You like this. Unlike · Add Comment · Admin CDs/Books/DVDs Like Page · Error Grosses 1/23 Photos The Atlanta Opera's Zurich General Director Dennis Reviews Hanthorn announced today the details of the company's STAGE TUBE: Watch David Mamet on THE SIMPSONS TV/Video 2011-2012 season, celebrating its fifth anniversary in the Web Radio Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, and welcoming Arthur Broadway Beat Sneak Peek H Fagen as its Music Director. The Atlanta Opera's new season - Meet the Cast of THAT O will feature Donizetti's chilling Lucia di Lammermoor; The Golden Ticket, a comic opera based CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON T on the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl; and Mozart's brilliant Don Broadway Off-topic Giovanni, and will be presented November 12, 2011 through May 6, 2012. Season tickets are on West End Student sale now. There are still two operas remaining in the Atlanta Opera's 2010-2011 season - Gershwin's American classic Porgy and Bess (February 26, March 1, 4 and 6) and Mozart's romantic comedy Così fan tutte (April 9, 12, 15 and 17). Tickets are available at Event Calendar www.atlantaopera.org. NYC Spotlight "The variety in this season's selections is exciting. Longtime opera fans, families and first-timers Hotel Finder looking to indulge in a unique evening out will all find something appealing," said Zurich General Restaurant Guide Director Dennis Hanthorn. "Season tickets start at an affordable $75 for three operas, so we hope our current subscribers will entice their friends to share the opera experience with them. Artistically, each production features debuting singers, many of whom are making headlines on Auditions the world's opera stages. Additionally, I am especially pleased to welcome Arthur Fagen this Classifieds *new* season as music director." BWW Junior Rialto Chatter The 2011-2012 season is the inaugural season with Arthur Fagen as music director. Fagen will Stage to Screen conduct two of the three operas. His other responsibilities as music director include building and Store developing The Atlanta Opera Orchestra and assisting Hanthorn with singer and orchestra Student Center *new* auditions, repertoire selection, and casting for future seasons. Maestro Fagen has had an Tony Awards extensive history with The Atlanta Opera which includes critically acclaimed productions of La Twitter Watch traviata, Turandot, Cold Sassy Tree, Akhnaten, The Flying Dutchman, and The Magic Flute. 2011 AUDITIONS - International Cabaret NEW Conference The Atlanta Opera opens its 2011-12 season at the Cobb Energy Centre on November 12, with Finally an Atlanta board! 10 Donizetti's chilling Lucia di Lammermoor. Other performances will be on November 15, 18 and Dreamgirls hits Atlanta THIS WEEK! NEW Feedback 20, 2011. In Donizetti's dramatic tragedy, Lucia is forced to marry against her will, setting off a Great opportunity - International Theatre NEW Photo IQ chain of tragic events that leads to the most spectacular mad scene in opera. The tragedy is Workshop Atlanta Auditions-INTERNATIONAL CABARET Your Settings played out on a grand scale leaving onlookers breathless. Soprano Georgia Jarman sings Lucia, NEW with Stephen Powell in the role of her brother, Enrico. Edgardo is sung by Jonathan Boyd, and CONFERENCE Translate Timothy Culver performs the role of Lucia's bridegroom, Arturo. Atlantan Susan Nicely sings the pick a language role of Lucia's handmaid, Alisa. Arthur Fagen, in his inaugural season as Atlanta Opera music powered by Google director, conducts. Stage direction will be provided by Tomer Zvulun who delighted Atlanta Opera audiences with his engaging staging of The Magic Flute in 2010 and The Flying Dutchman Stiller & Meara on the Kardashians in 2009. Lucia di Lammermoor will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected above New BWW E-Mail Alerts Galore.... the stage. Marc Shaiman: All Around Nice Guy The second production in The Atlanta Opera's 2011-12 season is a comic opera called The Golden Ticket, based on the classic children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," by Roald Dahl. The Golden Ticket, written by Peter Ash using a libretto by Donald Sturrock, will be presented on March 3, 6, 9 and 11, 2012. Commissioned by American Lyric Theater (Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director) and Dahl's widow, Felicity Dahl, The Golden Ticket features all the sweet delights familiar from the book, including chocolate rivers, inflating blueberries and Abbie & Story magic elevators. This Atlanta Opera production will be the third production of The Golden Ticket The Pirates! Being In Tech! Lance since it premiered in June 2010 at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Many singers from the original Misanthrope Earnest... Horne Saint Louis cast will reprise their roles in Atlanta including bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch as Willy Interview Wonka/Mr. Know, tenor Andrew Drost as Augustus Gloop, and baritone David Kravitz as Lord Salt. Mezzo-soprano Abigail Nims, who sang the role of Veruca Salt in Wexford Festival Opera's production, will sing the role in Atlanta. The roles of Grandma Josephine/Mrs. Teavee will be sung by mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. The role of Charlie, sung by a boy soprano, will be cast TimNunn - TimNunn: RT @ReelWrith: closer to the production. James Robinson, who directed the original production, will direct in Teachers, our free 150p re... more... Atlanta, as well. Composer Peter Ash will conduct. This production will be sung in English with English supertitles projected above the stage. The Atlanta Opera closes its 2011-2012 season with Mozart's masterpiece Don Giovanni on April 28, May 1, 4 and 6, 2012. Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni WONDERLAND Wishes is a brilliant combination of comedy and tragedy, telling of the devious schemes and hijinks of Happy Birthday To history's most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Bass Andrea Concetti makes his Atlanta Opera Lewis Caroll debut in the role of Don Giovanni. His sidekick, Leporello, will be sung by debuting bass- MEMPHIS To Perform baritone Eduardo Chama. Sopranos Lori Guilbeau and Maria Luigia Borsi sing the roles of Donna on ABC's Good Anna and Donna Elvira, respectively. The role of Don Ottavio will be sung by tenor Nicholas Morning America 1/28 Phan, who was last heard on The Atlanta Opera stage in 2008 singing Ramiro in Cinderella. The betrothed lovers Zerlina and Masetto will be sung by soprano Angela Kloc and Atlanta baritone STAGE TUBE: Kathie Brent Davis. Bass Andrew Kroes sings the Commendatore. Richard Kagey, who designed the set Lee Gifford Takes the for this season's Porgy and Bess and directed the Atlanta Opera's production of Philip Glass's Stage with MDQ Akhnaten in 2008, directs, with Atlanta Opera Music Director Arthur Fagen conducting The http://atlanta.broadwayworld.com/article/Atlanta_Opera_Announces_Their_201112_Season_20110127[1/27/2011 12:58:05 PM] Atlanta Opera Announces Their 2011-12 Season 2011/01/27 Atlanta Opera Orchestra. Don Giovanni will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected RIALTO CHATTER: above the stage. James Cromwell Headed to Broadway Tickets in YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU? Page 2 » Photo Coverage: In Click Here to Visit the Atlanta Home Page for More Stories! the Recording Studio with PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE Comments Login DESERT THE MUSICAL London Theatre Set New Records in 2010 There are no comments posted yet. Be the first one! 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