EarRelevant Staff | 23 JUL 2021
ATLANTA, GA— Home audiences will soon have opportunity to see The Atlanta Opera‘s two opera productions from Spring 2021 with the August release of film versions of both The Threepenny Carmen and The Threepenny Opera on the company’s Spotlight Media streaming platform.
Adapted and directed by Tomer Zvulun, the company’s general & artistic director, both productions premiered this past spring before live, in-person audiences, more than half of whom were new to The Atlanta Opera, as part of the company’s innovative “Big Tent” series.
The film version of The Threepenny Carmen, starring Megan Marino, Richard Trey Smagur, Jasmine Habersham and Michael Mayes drops on August 12. One week later The Threepenny Opera, featuring Jay Hunter Morris, Ronnita Miller, Kevin Burdette, Kelly Kaduce and Gina Perregrino makes its online debut August 19. Both were filmed, produced, directed and edited by Felipe Barral, the company’s director of digital media.
Launched last winter, The Atlanta Opera’s Spotlight Media digital platform presents highly produced filmed versions of the company’s 2020-21 Big Tent offerings, reaching new audiences in Germany, Italy, Israel and beyond.
Deconstructed to accommodate the pandemic safety needs that came with the season, these productions were enthusiastically received in live performance, as were both films of the two Fall 2020 productions, Pagliacci and The Kaiser of Atlantis.
The Atlanta Opera’s production of The Threepenny Carmen is a tightly condensed approach to George Bizet’s Carmen. Starring Megan Marino, Richard Trey Smagur and Michael Mayes, the story’s setting is transposed from Seville, Spain to a bar in East Texas and incorporates energetic Flaminco dance.
The company’s treatment of The Threepenny Opera, featuring Jay Hunter Morris, Ronnita Miller and Gina Perregrino, offers a streamlined adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Weimar-era masterpiece while retaining its original score. Created by Zvulun in partnership with the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. The production made use of a chorus of puppets, custom-made by Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts.
July releases from Spotlight Media: two new Love Letters to Atlanta
Meanwhile, July has brought two new Love Letters to Atlanta from Spotlight Media, featuring individual members of the resident Atlanta Opera Company Players: Megan Marino sings Cole Porter’s “So in Love” at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (released July 6) Richard Trey Smagur sings “Mr. Cellophane” from Kander & Ebb’s Chicago at the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse (released July 20).
Two additional Love Letters from Ryan McKinny and Jasmine Habersham are due for release this fall.
For more information, visit atlantaopera.org ■
BONUS MEDIA: View the cinematic trailers that accompanied the live productions of both The Threepenny Carmen and The Threepenny Opera:
The Threepenny Carmen · cinematic trailer
The Threepenny Opera · cinematic trailer
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