My family didn’t attend the opera when I was young. We made the trek to Nashville a number of times to attend the Grand Ole Opry, but that’s about as close as we got. If your...
Tonight and Sunday afternoon, Knoxville Opera presents “The Marriage of Figaro,” at the Bijou Theatre. A few tickets remain for each performance. The performance offers what has been a rare opportunity in recent memory for audience...
The Rossini Festival, presented by Knoxville Opera, generally has good weather. For those of us who remember the wind and monsoon years, however, the bad weather association is strong. Early last week it looked as if...
Tonight and in a Sunday matinee, Knoxville Opera presents The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar. Originally written in German, the libretto will be performed in English and includes both speaking portions as well as singing. The...
Though more properly connected with the Medal of Honor Celebration, Knoxville Opera’s Glory Denied doesn’t really connect with September 11 in any other way than scheduling. Still, if that extra pull of patriotism that stirred in the...
Through howling winds and driving rainstorms, and now through a pandemic, Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival has persisted over the years. It got a well-deserved beautiful day for 2022 in a slightly different footprint than its traditional...
Knoxville Opera is presenting a revival of Mefistofele with Hidenori Inoue making his KO debut in the title role. Kirk Dougherty plays Faust, while the principal cast is rounded out with Abigail Santos Villalobos (Margherita), Allison...
Various performing arts series were truncated or eliminated in 2020. As we entered 2021 the virus was at its peak and predicting when people might be able to gather was perilous when planning a living room...
What better production on a Valentine’s Day weekend than with Knoxville Opera for a work based on the Shakespeare play that features instant love, passionate love, and forbidden love? While the ending might not inspire the...
In the wake of the cancellation of Rhythm N’ Blooms, Dogwood Arts is producing a new festival that will be curated by The Dirty Guv’nahs. The new festival, promoted as the “inaugural” festival, will be presented...