By Scott Freeman
“The Atlanta Opera will produce a fall season of two shows in an outdoor circus tent pitched on an Oglethorpe University baseball field… Each show will have nine performances with a reduced orchestra under a big tent that will hold up to 240 people. The tent will be set up on a baseball diamond, with the walls rolled up to allow for air circulation.
… The performances will feature orchestras of no more than 13 musicians, who will be socially distanced and separated by plexiglass. The audience will sit in pods that hold four, and masks will be required. The tent will allow fresh air to circulate throughout the venue.
… Each production will showcase the opera’s new Atlanta Opera Company Players, comprised of internationally known singers who live in and around Atlanta and are out of work because of the pandemic.
Both productions will be filmed and later shown online. Digital subscriptions that include all six productions and exclusive behind-the-scenes content will be available for $99 and $50 for current subscribers. Tickets for the live performances will go on sale online at 10 a.m. September 9. The pods, each of which seats four, will start at $149.”
The Atlanta Opera plans to pitch a circus tent in left centerfield of Oglethorpe University’s baseball field. Here is how it envisions the interior layout, with a capacity of 240 people.
Source: Arts Atl
