BY ALAN SHERROD In his Friday evening pre-curtain remarks to the audience for Verdi’s Falstaff, Knoxville Opera General Director Jason Hardy asked for a show of hands of those seeing a KO production for the first time. Surprisingly, what…
Miscellany: More Things To Catch in October
As the autumn leaves drift by the window, one realizes that October is now half way toward Halloween with a packed schedule of music and arts happenings still to come in Knoxville. Knoxville Opera — Verdi’s Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi’s final…
Preview: This Week…Knoxville Opera Looks To Verdi’s ‘Falstaff” For Season Opener
Knoxville Opera’s opening production of the 2023-24 season will be the lyric comic opera, Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdi’s final operatic work. Based on Shakespeare’s play, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and scene bits from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, the opera features…