It has been three and a half months since our last Miscellany, the absence reflecting the lack of substantial art and music news to report. Unfortunately, the pandemic is not over and the necessary vigilance in keeping ourselves and others…
Week 16 of Free Met Opera Streams: June 28 – July 5
Intriguing variety is the key to Week 16 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streaming of past performances. Check out the new and old Donizetti—La Fille du Régiment from last year and a 40-year old performance of Don Pasquale with…
Marble City Opera Announces Upcoming Productions
What happens in the next thirty days in the Covid-19 pandemic will be a determining factor in how and when Knoxville is able to re-open its art and music scene. How will re-opening affect the number and demographics of new…
UT MFA Acting Program Moves Up To Eighth in National Ranking
BY ALAN SHERROD Knoxville theatre-goers have long recognized the benefits of the University of Tennessee Theatre Department’s MFA Acting Program, a program that forms the backbone of the resident Clarence Brown Theatre’s professional productions. However, local attention has been…
Week 15 of Free Met Opera Streams: June 21 – June 28
By now, most opera fans have received the news that the Metropolitan Opera is foregoing a fall season due to continued concerns over Covid-19 crisis safety. The Met is tentatively planning a January 2021 startup, preceded by a special Gala…
KMA To Reopen July 1; Delaney/Baldwin Exhibition Extended through October
Although all corners of the American economy have been confronted with the bizarre 2020 twist on Hobson’s Choice in dealing with the ramifications of Covid-19, the arts are especially so besieged. Creative momentum lost is energy that must somehow be…
Week 14 of Free Met Opera Streams: June 14 – June 21
As we sadly mentioned last week, it has been announced by Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb that due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis the Met was cancelling the fall months of the 2020-21 season. Their tentative plans now call for a…
Knoxville Photo 2020 Opens at the Emporium Center on July 3
The Arts & Culture Alliance and the Emporium Center opened their Summer Member Show last Friday and is continuing the re-opening process on July 3 with the 8th annual Knoxville Photo juried exhibition. The show, viewable from Friday, July 3…
Week 13 of Free Met Opera Streams: June 7 – June 14
This past week, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb announced that due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis the Met was cancelling the fall months of the 2020-21 season. Their tentative plans now call for a re-opening on December 31, 2020…
Emporium Center Re-Opens With Summer Members Show
Time itself has seemed to expand and contract over the last 12 weeks of sheltering in place, but there are signs that past and future precautions will continue the return to some degree of normalcy. To that end, the Arts…
