Hailed by the New York Times as the “leader of a new generation of opera stars,” and christened “opera’s nose-studded rock star,” Rome, Georgia's Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton has blown off the stodgy opera dust of a few centuries.
Jeff Hullinger speaks with renowned artist Steve Penley. Born in Chattanooga, raised in Macon, schooled in Athens, living in Atlanta, Penley is as southern as Grizzard, Bisher, and Governor Joe Frank Harris. “The South influences everything I paint, and everything I am.”
