Marble City Opera’s production of ‘Suor Angelica’ has two more performances on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 31 and June 1, at 7:30 PM, in the courtyard of St. John’s Cathedral in downtown Knoxville. Tickets By Alan Sherrod …
This Week: Marble City Opera Moves Outdoors for Puccini’s ‘Suor Angelica’
By Alan Sherrod It really was inevitable. Having performed operas of all sizes and shapes in a variety of non-theatre Knoxville venues including coffeeshops, hotel bars, converted freight depots, church naves, and historic mansions over its six years of…
Review: Portraits of Three Strong Women Mark Marble City Opera’s Latest at Blount Mansion
By Alan Sherrod Strength and courage in the face of the ugliness of war was the thread running through Marble City Opera’s latest evening of chamber opera performances—a production with the emphasis squarely on “chamber.” A period room in…
Review: ‘Nero Monologues’ from Sarah Toth and Marble City Opera
By Alan Sherrod The often curious intersection of art and history was discovered in South Knoxville last evening, as Marble City Opera offered its latest—a production created and performed by soprano Sarah Toth—Nero Monologues. The work, currently being staged…
This Weekend: Marble City Opera’s ‘Nero Monologues’ at Candoro Marble
By Alan Sherrod If you have attended any of Marble City Opera’s previous productions, you undoubtedly know that the company lives for performances in unusual and intriguing spaces that immerse the audience in an alternative music-theatre experience. Along the…
Review: Marble City Opera Examines Our Personal Baggage in ‘Postcard From Morocco’
This weekend found Marble City Opera’s final staged production of the year, Dominick Argento’s one-act work from 1971, ‘Postcard From Morocco’, in the event end of Jackson Terminal. The placement of a piece like Argento’s opera (libretto by John Donahue) in a space like the Terminal felt strangely natural—seven people find themselves waiting in a train station, all the while examining their existences in terms of their personal “baggage” in a surrealist dramatic environment. Dare I say it? It’s a bit like “Waiting For Godot in a Train Station.” And I mean that in the nicest—and most enticing—possible way.
Preview: ‘Postcard From Morocco’ On Its Way From Marble City Opera
Guessing in which intriguing, non-theatrical location Marble City Opera will stage their next chamber opera production has become something of a game in the Knoxville music scene. Following last season’s finale of La Traviata staged at Historic Westwood, this season…
Preview: Marble City Opera Follows Up With ‘Follow Suit’
Marble City Opera World Premiere of Follow Suit — music by Griffin Candey, libretto by Emily Anderson Cast: Kathryn Frady and Morgan Smith Stage Director: Matthew Haney Conductor: Griffin Candey Windows on the Park Lounge in Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park…
Knoxville’s Most Memorable Classical Music Performances of 2017
My “Most Memorable of the Year” list of classical music performances began in the pages of the former Metro Pulse, later finding a place in the Knoxville Mercury. Now, it has a home in Arts Knoxville. Here, then, is the list for 2017.
Review: ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’ Oozes Charm and a Very Timely Message
Amahl and the Night Visitors, a production of Marble City Opera and Cathedral Arts, has one final performance on Sunday afternoon, December 10, at 3:00 PM at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Avenue, Downtown Knoxville. ————- In the first…