Amahl and the Night Visitors, a production of Marble City Opera and Cathedral Arts, has…
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“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come … ”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Preview: Marble City Opera Returns With Menotti’s ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’
The story of how Gian-Carlo Menotti’s opera ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’ came into being begins not on a theatrical stage, but on a television stage in the early days of TV broadcasting.
Review: Warm Traditions Continue in CBT’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
Traditions are indeed powerful and compelling things in human civilization—and seem to exist for both…
Review: UT Opera Finds Nuptial Chemistry in Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
Last weekend in the Bijou, the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre explored the beauty of Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ (‘The Marriage of Figaro’), experimented with some fine vocal combinations, added some hot, dazzling visuals, and ended up with a vibrant, energetic production.
Preview: UT Opera Theatre Brings ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ to the Bijou This Weekend
University of Tennessee Opera Theatre: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Stage…
Review: CBT’s ‘Blue Window’ Explores the Simplicity and Complexity of Everyday Lives
A focus on the ensemble has been a defining—and satisfying—characteristic of the Clarence Brown Theatre…
This Weekend: An Overwhelming Diversity of Events
Gospel music, opera, Agatha Christie, Ravel, Shostakovich, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Opera, horror films,…
‘The Mousetrap’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
It is said that novelist and playwright Agatha Christie always became quite angry when reviewers…
Review: Into the Woods with Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Love Talker’
The hypnotic drone of cicadas smoothed over by a warm Appalachian mountain breeze; sun-dappled fields…
Review – Marble City Opera Explores Human Communication in ‘The Telephone’ and ‘The Human Voice’
Human communication via the telephone—both the attempt and the psychological result—was the broad premise of…
