Waiting anxiously in the wings for its entrance cue, the 2025-26 season of theatre and…
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“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir
Marble City Opera Announces Ryan Colbert as Associate Executive Artistic Director
Marble City Opera has announced that Ryan Colbert will be joining the company as its…
Friday: KSO’s Independence Day Concert at World’s Fair Park
Although the September opening of the 2025-26 Knoxville Symphony Orchestra season is still more than…
Review: Marble City Opera Vies With Mother Nature for a Rewarding ‘Pagliacci’
BY ALAN SHERROD Since its founding in 2013, Marble City Opera has followed an…
Preview: Marble City Opera To Present ‘Pagliacci’ in Oak Ridge’s A.K. Bissell Park
Marble City Opera journeys to Oak Ridge for their 2025 springtime offering, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, on…
Review: Knoxville Opera Offers A Timely ‘Stuck Elevator’
It would be next to impossible to find a more timely subject matter for an opera libretto than Stuck Elevator, Knoxville Opera’s latest production that had four performances this past weekend at the Old City Performing Arts Center. With music by Byron Au Yong and a libretto by Aaron Jafferis, the one-act opera, first performed in 2013, deals both tragically and poignantly with the immigrant experience that confronts us—immigrant or not—on a daily basis in 2025.
Review: KSO Wraps 2024-25 Season with Impressive New Worlds
BY ALAN SHERROD It was almost exactly three years ago that the Knoxville-based drum…
Review: UT Opera Theatre’s ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’
When first announced by the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, a production of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Bijou Theatre seemed like a bold and compelling choice. As it turned out, that choice took big advantage of the company’s current wealth of women’s voices. And, it was a marvelous vehicle for minimal, but inventive staging.
Review: KSO Changes Our Mind About Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana’ – And That’s Good
If one needed any more evidence as to the raw popularity of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, they had only to wade through the diverse crowd in the Tennessee Theatre lobby and partake of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s performance of it this past weekend.
Review: KSO Wraps Chamber Classics Series with Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ & Baroque Inspirations
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra wrapped up its 2024-25 Chamber Classics season at the Bijou Theatre on Sunday in rather spectacular fashion. The concert was sold out, proving not only that Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is intensely popular with audiences, but also that the series itself is attractive to those who gravitate to a Sunday afternoon performance in the intimate acoustic environment of the Bijou. Gratifying, too, is the fact that the series uses its own orchestra members as soloists, something that often leads to truly compelling performances from musicians getting a turn in the spotlight.
