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One of the most gratifying aspects of my years at WABE was connecting listeners to our city’s cultural events. A vibrant arts community can uplift and enrich the lives of Atlantans. The challenge today is to help these organizations thrive: Funding is essential from various sources. With money allocated to the arts, we can all take pride in a city made greater by its cultural organizations.

With two pieces inspired by a World War I Christmas Eve cease fire on the Western Front, a pair of crowd favorites plus Puccini’s Tosca and bringing to life the story of the Fisk Jubilee singers, the Atlanta Opera is setting the stage for its most diverse season before moving into its new home in 2027.

On Monday, the Atlanta Opera pitched a big red-and-blue circus tent on the lawn of its new home at the historic Bobby Jones Golf Course Clubhouse. It was the same tent the opera set up in the middle of an Oglethorpe University baseball field during the pandemic in 2020, when it was one of the only active art organizations performing in the country. Executive and artistic director Tomer Zvulun dusted the tent off and out of storage for Monday’s occasion to break ground on a new $72 million campus. A $25 million gift from Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation propelled the project, and the facility will be named after Arthur’s late mother as the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts.

Atlanta’s arts season is bursting with creativity, from the High Museum’s landmark exhibition of Minnie Evans to bold new takes on Balanchine, Bram Stoker, and Tennessee Williams. Here's your 2025 fall arts calendar.

Unveiled February 4, the Atlanta Opera’s upcoming 2025/2026 season is “all about twilight,” says artistic director Tomer Zvulun. And not just because the company is presenting the eagerly awaited production of Richard Wagner’s Twilight of the Gods (Götterdämmerung), the impressive conclusion to the composer’s Ring cycle, a massive 15-year undertaking for the Atlanta Opera.

Our 2024 Best of Atlanta picks for things to do—here's where you can play games, enjoy the arts, catch a show, play mini golf, workout, and more.

All five of the city’s major arts Institutions have brought in new leadership that has changed how Atlanta experiences the arts. Meet Rand Suffolk of the High Museum of Art, Tomer Zvulun of The Atlanta Opera, Nathalie Stutzmann of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Nedvigin of the Atlanta Ballet, and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and Christopher Moses of the Alliance Theatre.

Mark your calendars—here are 12 events we're eager to see this fall arts season in Atlanta.

The Atlanta Film Festival kicks off, Inman Park Festival returns, and more fun things to do this week.

Of all works in the operatic canon, few engender such reverence as the four operas that comprise Richard Wagner’s epic masterwork Der Ring des Nibelungen, or, as it’s commonly called, the Ring. Wagner’s magnum opus is lauded as one of the great artistic achievements of Western civilization—and the ultimate challenge for any opera company. The Ring has never been mounted in the American Southeast, let alone Atlanta. But that's about to change.