Music

ACE Becomes Amadeus Concert Ensemble and Announces 2024-25 Concerts

To more accurately reflect its evolution, scale, and importance, the Knoxville performance entity previously known…

Review Bits: Marble City Opera’s ‘Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalactites’

Telling someone to “go sing in a cave” sounds like a perfectly delicious fifth grade playground taunt, but, in truth, it is a tactic that seems to be working quite well for Marble City Opera. This past Saturday afternoon found them in Historic Cherokee Caverns off Oak Ridge Highway for “Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalactites,” a program of mostly operatic nuggets for three local tenors: Cody Boling, Chris Plass, and John Overholt.

Marble City Opera Announces Upcoming 2024-25 Season

While not quite a teenager, Marble City Opera has done a lot of living as…

Saturday: “Rising” – Lawrence Brownlee in Concert at the Tennessee Theatre

World-renowned tenor Lawrence Brownlee will present “Rising,” a concert under the auspices of Knoxville Opera…

Review: Marble City Opera Takes Puccini’s ‘Il Tabarro’ On A Marvelous Riparian Journey

Marble City Opera has literally doubled down on its previous outdoor theatre efforts, this time with two performances at two different locations. The chosen work was Puccini’s Il Tabarro (The Cloak) and the chosen locations were those that might suggest a dockside setting on Paris’ River Seine: the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum on the Little Tennessee River in Vonore on Friday and the Melton Lake Park in Oak Ridge on Sunday.

Review: Marble City Opera Breaks New Ground with ‘The Doctor and the Devils’

The occasion of a new opera making its world premiere carries not only an elevated interest for opera-goers, but also an elevated excitement. That was certainly the case last weekend as Marble City Opera premiered The Doctor and the Devils, a work it had commissioned from Knoxville composer Jason Overall.