BY ALAN SHERROD Matching singers to roles in a university opera program is certainly no small feat. A part of the natural attrition of a university program is a constantly changing educational dynamic. The number of student arrivals doesn’t…
This Week: UT Opera Theatre Offers ‘The Medium’ and ‘Suor Angelica’ at the Bijou
BY ALAN SHERROD In my November, 2011 Metro Pulse spotlight of the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre’s production of two short operas, Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica, I went out on a bit of a…
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…