PERFORMANCES
2023-24 Season
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mar 2 – 10, 2024
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Librettists: Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears
Based on the play by: William Shakespeare
Mystical figures dance in the night as Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream comes to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. This adaptation of celebrated playwright William Shakespeare’s work follows the consequences of a falling out between Oberon and Tytania, the fairy-king and queen.
Performed in English with English Supertitles
Die Walküre
Apr 27 – May 5, 2024
Composer & Librettist: Richard Wagner
The Ring Cycle, Wagner’s magnum opus, continues with Die Walküre, the second epic installment in the series. The daughters of Wotan, ruler of the gods, serve as Valkyries tasked with guiding the souls of fallen warriors to Valhalla. But as scandal erupts, Wotan finds himself at odds with whom he most trusts.
Performed in German with English Supertitles
2024-25 Season
Bohème Project:
La bohème
Sept 18 – Oct 5, 2024
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Librettist: Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa
The characters of La bohème face to face with the COVID-19 crisis. The “Bohème Project” plunges the audience into the world of young creatives facing life and death, and finding motivation for powerful and joyful living while external threats tear apart society.
Performed in English with English Supertitles
Bohème Project:
Rent
Sept 19 – Oct 6, 2024
Composer & Lyricist/Librettist: Jonathan Larson
Additional Lyrics: Billy Aronson
Based on La bohème by: Giacomo Puccini
The creative, vital story of La bohème inspired the Broadway smash hit Rent as Broadway took the same story of friendship, passion, and art in the time of a pandemic and brought it to the 1990s HIV/AIDS devastation.
Performed in English with English Supertitles
The Magic Flute
Nov 2 – 10, 2024
Composer: W.A. Mozart
Librettist: Emanuel Schikaneder (attrib.)
With a magic flute and bells, a prince and a bird-catcher set off to free a kidnapped princess. Gorgeous music, whimsical characters, magical instruments, and special effects are layered over the quest for wisdom and truth.
Performed in German with English Supertitles
Macbeth
Mar 1 – 9, 2025
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettists: Francesco Maria Piave & Andrea Maffei
Based on: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A powerful and emotional work, Macbeth is no love story … just a darkly riveting scramble to grab power at any cost. This is the second of our series of operas based on the works of William Shakespeare.
Performed in Italian with English Supertitles
Siegfried
Apr 26 – May 4, 2025
Composer & Librettist: Richard Wagner
Weaving together the stories and characters in The Atlanta Opera’s Ring Cycle, Siegfried is the epic opera that creates a vision of a magnificent future where love, courage, and wisdom triumph over the lure of power.
Performed in German with English Supertitles
Semele
Jun 7 – 15, 2025
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Librettist: William Congreve (adapted by anonymous)
Endless pleasure. Endless love. Princess Semele burns with passion for her seducer, Jupiter, but is ultimately brought down by his wife Juno. Semele is a love triangle soaked in sensuality, ambition, and jealousy.
Performed in English with English Supertitles
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