Tue, Oct 6, 2020
Morris Robinson has a story to tell, and he has a musical Love Letter to share with his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. In the first of a series of twelve Love Letters to Atlanta, featuring the stellar Atlanta Opera Company Players, Robinson visits the historic Fox Theatre in Atlanta to sing and speak about a moment when he had an "Impossible Dream" to become a performer. Each Love Letter includes visually stunning capture of a song with great meaning to the singer in a space that has great meaning to Atlanta. Interviews with the artist complete the experience.
Fri, Nov 6, 2020
Mezzo Soprano, Jamie Barton vividly remembers each special trip to the Fox Theatre when she was a kid growing up in Rome, Georgia. She salutes her current hometown of Atlanta in a Fox Theatre debut that will knock your socks off. Barton's performance of "Georgia on My Mind" by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell is the third of a series of twelve Love Letters to Atlanta, featuring the stellar Atlanta Opera Company Players. Each Love Letter includes visually stunning capture of a song with great meaning to the singer in a space that has great meaning to Atlanta. Interviews with the artist complete the experience.
Mon, Nov 23, 2020
Burdette sings "If Ever I would Leave You" from the beloved Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot, honoring one of his favorite vocal heroes, Cesare Siepi, another bass who adopted Atlanta as his hometown. Burdette has chosen to perform in the Atlanta Civic Center Auditorium. The massive theater, now poignantly empty and closed to the public, hosted operatic legends during the Metropolitan Opera's wildly successful summer opera tour, an annual residency that lasted for more than 75 years. In fact, the auditorium itself was built in 1967 in order to accommodate the throngs of opera lovers who attended each year. Burdette's performance is the second of a series of twelve Love Letters to Atlanta, featuring the stellar Atlanta Opera Company Players. Each Love Letter includes visually stunning capture of a song with great meaning to the singer in a space that has great meaning to Atlanta. Interviews with the artist complete the experience.
Sat, Oct 1, 2022
Megan Marino's Atlanta is a lifeboat in the middle of a terrible storm. The roar of applause in the midst of upheaval. When she and husband Michael Mayes moved to South Carolina in early 2020, they found solace and success in the company of other performers just three hours drive west. In her Love Letter to Atlanta, Company Player Megan Marino sings "Seguidilla" from a Carmen created during the pandemic storm of 2020. Her letter salutes the company she made home, the audience that embraced her and the anticipation we all feel about getting back to live, indoor performances. It was filmed in May 2021 at The Atlanta Opera Big Tent and Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Marino's performance is the fourth of a series of Love Letters to Atlanta, featuring the stellar Atlanta Opera Company Players. Megan Marino sings Cole Porter's "So in Love" in the second installment of her Love Letter to Atlanta. Each Love Letter includes visually stunning capture of a song with great meaning to the singer in a space that has great meaning to Atlanta. Interviews with the artist complete the experience.
Thu, Jul 1, 2021
In the fifth installment of Love Letters to Atlanta, Trey Smagur talks to Tomer Zvulun about his influences, growing up in the foothills of north Georgia and more. Smagur performs "Mr. Cellophane" from Chicago. Then, Trey Smagur sings "Ah, la paterna mano" from Giuseppe Verdi's MacBeth. MacDuff laments the loss of his family to MacBeth. Recorded in the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thu, Sep 9, 2021
World-renowned bass-baritone Ryan McKinny sings "Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge" from Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner and discusses the complexities of the composer with Tomer Zvulun. Recorded in the Atlanta Symphony Hall at The Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. In the second part of McKinny's Love Letter, he sings a touching song by Florence Price, "To My Little Son", where she imagines her son as a young man. The final selection from Ryan McKinny's Love Letter to Atlanta featuring Florence Price's "Night."