It sometimes seems like a dream. Yes, there actually was a time when people went into theaters with other people and sat next to them while viewing and hearing creative expression from musicians, actors, and other artists on stage. While…
Streaming Holiday Treats, December 15 – 25
Here are some suggestions for your Holiday streaming entertainment — in no particular order. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Clarence Brown Theatre/UT Department of Theatre Clarence Brown Theatre and the…
This Week: Marble City Opera Offers A Staged Version of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’
BY ALAN SHERROD As the winter of 2020 begins to show its hand and taunt us mercilessly—a winter undeniably capable of dashing both our physical and socio-political hopes—we can perhaps identify with, and take consolation in, an equally arduous…
Marble City Opera Announces Upcoming Productions
What happens in the next thirty days in the Covid-19 pandemic will be a determining factor in how and when Knoxville is able to re-open its art and music scene. How will re-opening affect the number and demographics of new…
Marble City Opera Postpones ‘I Pagliacci’ Until August
Marble City Opera has announced that its production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, originally scheduled for May 29 and 30 at the Tennessee Amphitheater in World’s Fair Park, has been re-scheduled for August 13, 14, and 15 at the same…
Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘ShadowLight’ – A Stunning Celebration of the Art and Life of Beauford Delaney
BY ALAN SHERROD One of the greatest challenges of theatre is representing art through music—and music through art. ShadowLight, a new opera from Marble City Opera with music by Larry Delinger and libretto by Emily Anderson, took that challenge…
Preview: Marble City Opera’s ‘ShadowLight’ Explores the Life and Art of Beauford Delaney
BY ALAN SHERROD One of the lamentable ironies of artistic creation is that the age in which one lives and works is not necessarily the age in which one gains widespread acceptance. The perfect example of this is the…
Opening at KMA: “Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”
This winter and spring, Knoxville will find itself at a most remarkable and important intersection of art, music, opera, literature, and cultural education. At the center of that intersection is the life and art of Beauford Delaney, an African American…
Most Memorable Classical Music Performances of 2019
By Alan Sherrod Regular readers of Arts Knoxville will recall that we have been unabashed advocates for the resurgence of Downtown Knoxville as a focal point for the city, if for no other reason than the environmental vitality it…
This Week: Marble City Opera Presents U.S. Premiere of ‘City of Ashes’
City of Ashes, a one-act opera by Evan Fein and Emily Anderson, receives its U.S. premiere this week on Thursday and Friday under the auspices of Marble City Opera and Friends of Music and the Arts (FOMA) at Knoxville’s Church…