The Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions for the Mid-South Region will take place this Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Germantown Performing Arts Center in Germantown, TN. Starting time is 11 am. One region winner will advance to the national semi-finals in New…
Four Winners in 2016 Met Auditions for Middle/East Tennessee District
2016 Met Audition Winners with district co-chairs (L to R) Phyllis Driver (co-chair), Jessica Faselt, Evan Kardon, Lauren McQuistin, Todd Barnhill, Jocelynne McCall (co-chair) The 2016 Metropolitan National Council auditions for the Middle/East Tennessee District held on Saturday, January 9,…
Review: Magically Delicious–UT Opera Theatre Charms with Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
Without doubt, the very things that make Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) compelling theatre are also the things that can become mind-boggling difficulties in modern productions. Its allegorical themes of enlightenment vs. ignorance, and the basic good vs. evil…
Three Winners Emerge in 2015 Middle/East Tennessee District Met Auditions
Three winners were selected in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Middle/East Tennessee District last Saturday (January 3, 2015) held in the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall at the University of Tennessee School of Music. Tenor Todd Barnhill…
Review: UT Opera Theatre, World Premiere of Larry Delinger’s ‘Medea’
Steve Smith, music writer and currently the Assistant Arts Editor at the Boston Globe, wrote in the New York Times in 2011: “New York is unquestionably an international capital of the arts, but it can also be a frustrating backwater…