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A fundraiser for Opera Studies at GSU, this gourmet, three-course dinner will feature singers from the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop and special guest artist in residence FREDERICA VON STADE! Dinner will be preceded by a silent auction. The three-week Harrower Summer Opera Workshop runs from May 27 - June 16, under the leadership of W. Dwight Coleman, general director; Carroll Freeman, artistic director.
2013 Gala Opera Dinner Ticket Levels: Silver Ticket - $120: Includes one ticket to the Gala Opera Dinner and Silent Auction Gold Ticket - $150: Includes benefits above, PLUS one ticket to your choice of two Harrower Opera performances Platinum Ticket - $250: Includes benefits above, PLUS admission to an exclusive Meet & Greet brunch on Monday, June 10, with Frederica von Stade and masterclass with the artist.

Presenting three one-act operas by Milton Granger: Benedicta, Angry Birdsong, and The Proposal, featuring participants in the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop. Benedicta, a serious one-act opera based on a short story by Sarah Braunstein, is set in an assisted living facility. Angry Birdsong, a comic opera, is set in the office of "Made to Persuade," where Dulcine, a shy agronomy technology researcher, is seeking advice on how to excite her audience in an upcoming presentation describing her company's new soybean varieties. The Proposal, also a comic opera, is set in the mind of "Herself," an attractive business woman struggling with how to answer a marriage proposal. She calls a meeting of the board, consisting of five of her alter egos: Five-Year-Old, Security Officer, Sensuous Woman, Statue of Liberty and Mother Teresa, to get their advice. Performance will take place at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30306.

Performances of scenes from Albert Herring, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia and The Turn of the Screw, celebrating the 100th birthday of English composer Benjamin Britten. Featuring participants in the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop.

Featuring participants in the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop. The story buzzes around the stoop of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan, where several families suffer not only two brutally hot summer days in the 1940s, but the challenges of a teeming metropolis and tensions surrounding racism, politics, addiction and illicit sexual affairs. The show depicts the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossiping of neighbors, until mounting tensions eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions.

Featuring participants in the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop. The story buzzes around the stoop of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan, where several families suffer not only two brutally hot summer days in the 1940s, but the challenges of a teeming metropolis and tensions surrounding racism, politics, addiction and illicit sexual affairs. The show depicts the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossiping of neighbors, until mounting tensions eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions.

Featuring participants in the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop. Poet-hero, E.T.A. Hoffmann, regales his drunken fraternity brothers with three stories of his greatest romances.tales that depict the struggle between human love and an artist's dedication to his work. Though Hoffmann cannot keep any of these women happy, he does gain poetic inspiration-the ability to transform pain and loss into art.

Featuring participants in the 2013 Harrower Summer Opera Workshop. Poet-hero, E.T.A. Hoffmann, regales his drunken fraternity brothers with three stories of his greatest romances.tales that depict the struggle between human love and an artist's dedication to his work. Though Hoffmann cannot keep any of these women happy, he does gain poetic inspiration-the ability to transform pain and loss into art.