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Did you know? The original cast of Rent featured musical theatre legends like Taye Diggs, Anthony Rapp, and—in her Broadway debut—Idina Menzel.

Pssst, did you hear? You can get your tickets NOW to Rent and La Bohème!

“We are incredibly excited to bring these bold and risky new productions to the stage,” said Tomer Zvulun, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General and Artistic Director of The Atlanta Opera. “This is the first time an opera company has performed Rent. And even though Rent is directly inspired by Boheme, this is the first time these two works have been paired in performance..."

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Tickets on sale now for the Atlanta Opera's 'Rent' and 'La bohème' Single tickets are now on sale for the Atlanta Opera's upcoming productions of Rent and La bohème in September.

We're just reminiscing about this past season...

If you want to take a walk down memory lane with us, you can watch the livestream replays at stream.atlantaopera.com and relive the magic.

Want to join The Atlanta Opera team? Apply for Box Office Associate now: https://bit.ly/4cSCKwS

🎭 Rent
📆 September 19-October 6
📍 Pullman Yards

🎭 La bohème
📆 September 18-October 5
📍Pullman Yards

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Congratulations to The Atlanta Opera Film Studio for winning TWO Telly awards!

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Official Cinematic Trailers by The Atlanta Opera Film Studio

2024 TELLY AWARDS BRONZE
General-DEI: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Social Video

Pictured: Tomer Zvulun & Felipe Barral

Designed to travel, The Atlanta Opera’s Studio Tour productions are presented for thousands of students in schools and community venues across the state of Georgia each year. This season’s Studio Tour, Mozart’s enchanting fairy tale, "The Magic Flute," comes to life with a collaboration with the Center for Puppetry Arts to create a new interpretation of this classic for the classroom.

Learn more & sign up: https://bit.ly/4cCQhsb

This year's 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase featured so much talent: congratulations to all of the finalists who shared their visions of the future with the audience at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College this past Monday.

Operawire shares the news of the winning composition of the 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase: "The winning composition was Kitty Brazelton and Vaibu Mohan’s “Jala Smriti — Water Memory.” The opera explores the use of Artificial Intelligence to support people with dementia.

'Jala Smriti - Water Memory' Wins The Atlanta Opera's 96-Hour Opera Festival 2024 - OperaWire The Atlanta Opera has announced the winners for its 96-hour opera festival.

Thank you to UPS for sponsoring the 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival — your support makes events like these possible!

We are so proud to announce the winners of the 2024 96-Hour Opera Project: composer Kitty Brazelton and librettist Vaibu Mohan!

Their winning piece, "Jala Smriti - Water Memory," was a touching exploration at the use of Artificial Intelligence to support people with dementia. Brazelton and Mohan will share the $10,000 Antinori Foundation Grand Prize and a commission from The Atlanta Opera to write a chamber opera.

GOING LIVE 📽️ Enjoy the 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase—from the comfort of your own home!

Start watching now, FREE at stream.atlantaopera.org

TONIGHT! The 2024 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase comes to the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College.

See the culmination of 96-hours of creativity as 5 teams compete for the grand prize. Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/3RvNvgm

Pictured: 2023 96-Hour Opera Project winners Selda Sahin and Dave Ragland rehearsing their winning piece, "Steele Roots"

⚠️ Flood warning: catch the livestream of “Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)” at stream.atlantaopera.org now!

TONIGHT! The world-premiere of "Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)" comes to the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College.

From 2022 96-Hour Opera Project winners Marcus Norris and Adamma Ebo, this supernatural dark comedy explores Georgia's past as it collides with the present.

Experience this modern-day ghost story yourself!

📆 Saturday, June 15 at 8:00pm
📍Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College
🎟️ Available here: https://bit.ly/4bYk6nb

Meet 96-Hour Opera Festival librettist, Mo Holmes.

Mo Holmes is a black q***r Southern playwright and dramaturg, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch from Texas to Alabama. Her works include: WE SO SHORT (honors: 2022 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist; development: 2019-2020 Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Mentorship), AMANDA (development: 2024 Tennessee Williams Clarksdale Workshop with Lucy Thurber), YR GOD MY GOD (production: 2021 Minnesota Opera MNiatures), and GRWM (development: 2021 Everwood Farmstead Retreat; 2019 Center for Performing Arts New Works Artist-in-Residence in Minneapolis).

The 96-hours have begun! The finalists are here in Atlanta and working to get their world-premiere 10-minute operas ready for the Showcase on Monday.

See what they come up with, Monday June 17th at 7:00pm at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College.

Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3RvNvgm

Meet composer Lauren McCall, competing in the 96-Hour Opera Festival.

Lauren McCall is a composer and music educator from Atlanta, Georgia. She studied for her master’s degree in music composition at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she is a Ph.D. student studying music technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Lauren has had compositions performed around North America and Europe. This includes her piece for open instrumentation titled To Cover You, which was performed at the Fresh Inc. Festival, and Continuum, which was performed by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Laptop Orchestra.

What happens when a private detective and a witch team up to take on the supernatural?

Find out in this thrilling dark-comedy, "Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)" — premiering this Saturday! Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/4bYk6nb

Meet 96-Hour Opera Festival librettist, Vaibu Mohan.

Vaibu Mohan is a writer, musician, dancer, director, and producer specializing in bringing South Asian forms of storytelling and theater making into the Western sphere. She founded the series Work In Progress at 54 Below which gives early career writers a place to present their work. New York City premieres include: Life of A Lemon (NYU/AOP Opera Labs), Keep It Cheery (Brooklyn Children’s Theater), and the concert presentation of Sati: Goddess Incarnate at 54 Below in July 2023.

Meet Kitty Brazelton, composer in the 96-Hour Opera Festival.

For pioneering NYC composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Kitty Brazelton, music is personal, and the personal is universal. Winner of two Opera America awards, Aaron Copland Fund for Music and an NPR-broadcast choral commission with Garrison Keillor, the irrepressible Brazelton has always championed music’s power to unite—across genre, across tradition, across language.

"Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)" premieres this Saturday!

Listen to the creators, Marcus Norris and Adamma Ebo, speak with Lois Reitzes on City Lights about their experience in the inaugural competition and the inspirations behind their world-premiere production.

96-Hour Opera Festival winners premiere - 'Forsyth County is Flooding (With the Joy of Lake Lanier)' in Atlanta The 96-Hour Opera Festival is a competition for emerging composers and librettists from underrepresented backgrounds. Five teams have four days to create and stage a 10-minute operatic work that a […]

Librettist Ashlee Haze takes on the 96-Hour Opera Project this year.

Kiera “Ashlee Haze” Nelson is a poet and spoken word artist from Atlanta by way of Chicago. She is the winner of a 2023 Silver Telly Award for original copywriting and voiceover. She has been a part of the Atlanta Poetry circuit for over a decade and has been writing for over 15 years. Ashlee Haze has brought poetry to unexpected spaces, including New York Fashion Week, Atlanta United Soccer, THINX, The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, The Atlanta Dream, H&M, Blavity, and more. She appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk series alongside Queen & Slim composer Blood Orange.

“I was immediately attracted to this opera because of how accessible the art is! It is a wide invitation to both the novice and the traditional opera enthusiast.”
Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Director | Jennings Hertz Artistic Director, The Alliance Theatre

Selected as winner of the inaugural 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase in 2022, "Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)" is the first new opera launched from the annual competition.

Get your tickets now to this world-premiere now: https://bit.ly/49450Kr

Meet composer Evan Williams, participant in the 96-Hour Opera Project.

Drawing from inspirations as diverse as Medieval chant to contemporary pop, the music of composer and conductor Evan Williams (b. 1988) explores the thin lines between beauty and disquieting, joy and sorrow, and simple and complex, while often tackling important social and political issues. Williams’ catalogue contains a broad range of work, from vocal and operatic offerings to instrumental works, along with electronic music.