In Sunday’s Metropolitan Opera National Council (MONC) Grand Finals Concert, UT Alumna Alexandria Shiner emerged as one of five winners in this year’s Grand Finals competition. The soprano, most recently a member of Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program,…
UT Alum Alexandria Shiner Joins Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program
It goes without saying that the beginning of any career is full of uncertainties and daunting obstacles. For young opera singers, though, the keys to success are even more tantalizingly elusive, magnified by the stratospheric level of natural vocal talent…
Review: Marble City Opera Takes ‘La Traviata’ To Another Dimension
Review of Marble City Opera’s ‘La Traviata’
2017 Winners: Met Opera Auditions-Middle/East Tennessee District
On Saturday, January 7, twenty-seven singers competed in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Middle/East Tennessee District held in the University of Tennessee’s Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall. The judges chose three singers to advance to the next step in the competition, the Southeast Region competition. In addition, three singers received Encouragement Awards.
Review: UT Opera Theatre’s ‘The Consul’
At the time Gian Carlo Menotti created his opera The Consul in 1950, American notions of bureaucracy and its practitioners were defined by deep suspicion and the fear of insidious dehumanization. By today’s standards, those attitudes were almost laughably simplistic. Our…
Review: Magically Delicious–UT Opera Theatre Charms with Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
Without doubt, the very things that make Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) compelling theatre are also the things that can become mind-boggling difficulties in modern productions. Its allegorical themes of enlightenment vs. ignorance, and the basic good vs. evil…