A musically sumptuous, dramatically staid Die Walküre in Atlanta

Greer Grimsley (Wotan) and Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde)

Viktor Antipenko (Siegmund) and Laura Wilde (Sieglinde)

Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde) and Laura Wilde (Sieglinde)

The Ride of the Valkyries

Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Greer Grimsley (Wotan) and Gretchen Krupp (Fricka)

Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde) and Greer Grimsley (Wotan)

Par Cameron Kelsall, 30 avril 2024

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“a signal that grand opera still has a place amid mounting industry-wide financial austerity”

Critique faite à Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre: John A Williams Theatre, Atlanta, le 30 avril 2024

Wagner, La Walkyrie (Die Walküre)

Atlanta Opera

Arthur Fagen, Direction

Tomer Zvulun, Mise en scène

Erhard Rom, Décors, Projection designer

Mattie Ullrich, Costumes

Robert Wierzel, Lumières

Atlanta Opera Orchestra

Greer Grimsley, Wotan

Viktor Antipenko, Siegmund

Raymond Aceto, Hunding

Laura Wilde, Sieglinde

Christine Goerke, Brünnhilde

Gretchen Krupp, Fricka

Yelena Dyachek, Helmwige

Julie Adams, Gerhilde

Alexandra Razskazoff, Ortlinde

Catherine Martin, Waltraute

Aubrey Odle, Siegrune

Deborah Nansteel, Roßweiße

Maya Lahyani, Grimgerde

A modern staging for Atlanta Opera's Carmen

William E Ford, 15th April

General and Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun unleashes an unending flow of creativity and originality in The Threepenny Carmen.

*****

Pagliacci takes to the Big Top in Atlanta

William E Ford, 30th October

The Atlanta Opera presents a superior live production of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci to a masked, socially distanced audience.

*****

Atlanta Opera presents Dead Man Walking

William E Ford, 2nd February

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking is credited as being the most performed 21st-century opera, and with good reason.

****1

Eugène Onéguine à l'Opéra de Montréal : de l'inconvénient d'être aimé

Emmanuel Bernier, 14th September

Étienne Dupuis et Nicole Car ont remporté tous les suffrages dans les deux rôles principaux de l'opéra Eugène Onéguine à l'Opéra de Montréal, dans une production à peu près sans faille.

*****

LA Opera’s Rigoletto: a feast for the ears – and the mind

Matthew Richard Martinez, 31st May

Quinn Kelsey shines as Verdi’s court jester as Tomer Zvulun's production opens in Los Angeles.

****1

Opera for the iAge in Kansas City

Hilary Stroh, 11th March

Twilight of a Tech God: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

*****

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Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall is a classical music critic and cultural reporter. He has written for Bachtrack since 2019, and his byline has appeared in many national and international classical music publications. Based in Philadelphia, he regularly travels around the United States for musical events. In addition to his career in journalism, Cameron also teaches in the Theatre Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a certified sommelier and avid home cook. His favorite composer is Mahler. Twitter: @CameronPKelsall.

Goerke and Grimsley head a musically sumptuous, dramatically staid Die Walküre at Atlanta Opera