12-13 SEASON
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Escape the Ordinary: 2012-2013 Season at the Cobb Energy Centre
Saturday, November 10 at 8 pm
Tuesday, November 13 at 7:30 pm
Friday, November 16 at 8 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 3 pm
Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Conducted by Carl and Sally Gable Music Director Arthur Fagen
Directed by Jeffrey Buchman
Sung in French with projected English translations
The Atlanta Opera opens its 2012-2013 season with Bizet’s classic, Carmen. Set in sultry Spain, the opera traces Don José’s ill-fated attraction to the alluring gypsy, Carmen. When Carmen casts off her ardent lover for the handsome toreador, Escamillo, José’s intense jealousy turns to vengeance and dooms the fiery romance to a tragic end. Carmen is full of sizzling opera hits, including the famous “Habañera” and the irresistible Toreador’s song.
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Maria
José Montiel
Carmen
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Fernando
de la Mora
Don José
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Aleksey
Bogdanov
Escamillo
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Melissa
Shippen
Micaëla
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Arthur
Fagen
Conductor |
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Jeffrey
Buchman
Director |
Saturday, March 2 at 8 pm
Tuesday, March 5 at 7:30 pm
Friday, March 8 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 10 at 3 pm
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Conducted by Joseph Rescigno
Directed by David Gately
Sung in Italian with projected English translations
In celebration of the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, the Atlanta Opera’s second opera of the 2012-2013 season will be the tale of opera’s most beloved “fallen woman,” La traviata. Based on La dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from a novel by Alexandre Dumas, Verdi’s La traviata tells the story of Violetta, a worldly courtesan who is forced to give up the love of her life in this tale of lavish revelry, family strife, unfortunate misunderstanding and selfless sacrifice. La traviata is a treasured classic overflowing with memorable music. Both longtime opera lovers and first-timers will be touched by this romantic tragedy.
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Mary
Dunleavy
Violetta
Valery
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Boris
Rudak
Alfredo
Germont
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Weston
Hurt
Giorgio
Germont
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Maria
McDaniel
Flora
Bervoix |
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Joseph
Rescigno
Conductor |
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David
Gately
Director |
Atlanta Opera Première!
Saturday, April 27 at 8 pm
Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 pm
Friday, May 3 at 8 pm
Sunday, May 5 at 3 pm
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Angelo Anelli
Conducted by Carl and Sally Gable Music Director Arthur Fagen
Directed by Chris Alexander
Sung in Italian with projected English translations
In the spring of 2013, The Atlanta Opera will present Rossini’s bel canto opera The Italian Girl in Algiers for the first time. Directed by internationally acclaimed German stage director Chris Alexander in his Atlanta Opera debut, this production will be set in the 1930’s. The production re-imagines Isabella as an aviator and features a “pop-up book” set, through which audiences will be transported to a fairy tale landscape. In this whimsical, madcap adventure, Isabella is captured by an Algerian ruler who dreams of adding an Italian wife to his harem. Once imprisoned, Isabella turns the tables and rescues the man of her dreams. With more belly laughs than any opera should reasonably permit, Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers will charm your socks off!
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Sandra
Piques Eddy
Isabella |
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Michele
Angelini
Lindoro |
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Burak
Bilgili
Mustafà
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Bruno
Practicò
Taddeo |
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Arthur
Fagen
Conductor |
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Chris
Alexander
Director |
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