BY ALAN SHERROD Exploring different stylistic niches in opera has been the raison d’etre of Marble City Opera since its beginning in 2013. Its productions over that time have ranged from works with timely relevance (I Can’t Breathe) to…
Preview: An Old West Ghost Story Beckons Marble City Opera in ‘The Copper Queen’
Marble City Opera: The Copper Queen Music by Clint Borzoni; libretto by John de los Santos Flying Anvil Theatre, 1300 Rocky Hill Road Thursday – Saturday, June 2-4, 2022, 7:30 PM Tickets and Information Almost exactly nine years ago, Marble…
Review: Marble City Opera Premieres Important Theatre in ‘I Can’t Breathe’
BY ALAN SHERROD It would be impossible to find a more relevant topic for contemporary theatre than that found in the Marble City Opera production of I Can’t Breathe, a new opera that received its world premiere on Thursday…
Performances This Week: ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Premiere, Master Arts Recital at CSUMC, KSO Chamber Orchestra
Marble City Opera: World Premiere of I Can’t Breathe Demand was great for tickets to Marble City Opera’s World Premiere production of a new opera, I Can’t Breathe, music by Leslie Burrs and libretto by Brandon Gibson. The three performances…
The Most Popular Arts Knoxville Stories of 2021
As we keep repeating as if it wasn’t obvious, 2021 has been a year like no other. Arts organization have had to reexamine their priorities and deal with new issues, like performer and audience safety, ticketing, and live-streaming. Those of…
Most Memorable Music Performances of 2021
BY ALAN SHERROD Last year—2020—will forever bear an asterisk in the history books to indicate that we had foregone normal life for reasons of safety and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Arts Knoxville’s own yearly “Most Memorable” list of…
Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘Lily’ – Audrey Babcock Is Spellbinding in One-Woman Show
BY ALAN SHERROD There are those illusive gems of music and theatre—performances and performers— that seem to exist only for audiences who know how to recognize their importance and artistic value when fate brings them together. In many ways,…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Marble City Opera – ‘Lily’, Big Ears 2022 Additions, UT Percussion Ensemble
Things to Know and See This Week, October 26-31 Marble City Opera Knoxville theatre and opera goers may remember mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock from the 2015 Knoxville Opera production of Carmen, certainly made memorable by Babcock in the title role. This…
Review: Marble City Opera Delivers a Fabulous ‘Tosca’
BY ALAN SHERROD When I previewed the first-ever performance by the fledgling Marble City Opera in a Metro Pulse article in 2013, the concept of a chamber opera company that performed in mostly non-theatrical spaces seemed to be just…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: UT Downtown Gallery, Emporium Center, Knoxville Children’s Theatre, Knoxville Opera
Marble City Opera Sells Out Its Three-Performance Run of Tosca In what has to be a show of both audience hunger for music and theatre, and optimism for a reinvigorated arts scene in Knoxville, Marble City Opera has indicated that…