For its spring production, the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre will present The Cunning Little Vixen, a three act opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. UTOT will offer four performances with double casting, Friday thru Sunday, April 24–26, at…
UT Opera Theatre Introduces a New Stage Director … and an Italian Double Feature
Stepping into the spotlight with his first production as Director of Opera Theatre at UT is James Kenon Mitchell.
For the fall production of the 2025-26 UTOT season, two one-act comic operas were chosen: La cambiale di matrimonio (The Marriage Contract) by Gioachino Rossini and Amelia al ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball) by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Review: UT Opera Theatre’s ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’
When first announced by the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, a production of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Bijou Theatre seemed like a bold and compelling choice. As it turned out, that choice took big advantage of the company’s current wealth of women’s voices. And, it was a marvelous vehicle for minimal, but inventive staging.
Preview: UT Opera Theatre Offers Four Performances of ‘Cinderella’ This Weekend
Although the 17th Century French author Charles Perrault did not coin the phrase “fairy tale”—that honor goes to Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d’Aulno—he certainly gets credit for creating the genre. Late in life, Perrault turned his attention to…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Film Fest Knox, UT Opera Theatre, Momentum Dance Lab
This weekend really forces one to make some uncomfortable choices in the Knoxville arts and music scene. Despite the pain of having to choose among competing interests, this is probably a good thing, all things considered. Film Fest Knox Kicks…
UT Opera Theatre Update: Weather Forces ‘Die Fledermaus’ Inside This Weekend
If—as they say—”necessity is the mother of invention”, the term could have been created for UT Opera Theatre. First, a scheduling conflict preventing them from performing in their usual venue, the Bijou Theatre downtown, had them planning instead on the…
Review: The Magic Returns – UT Opera Theatre Delights With Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
BY ALAN SHERROD Imagine being a young singer with operatic ambitions, ready to make the most of an undergraduate or graduate opera program to provide a springboard into the professional world, when rather suddenly … everything comes to a…
Review: UT Opera Theatre Sparkles With ‘The Elixir of Love’
By Alan Sherrod Throughout its 187 year history, Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto comedy The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) has remained high on the list of most-performed operas worldwide. This popularity comes at a price, though, as opera companies…
Preview: UT Opera Theatre Brings ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ to the Bijou This Weekend
University of Tennessee Opera Theatre: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Stage director: James Marvel Conductor: Kevin Class Friday, Saturday, Sunday—November 10, 11, 12 Bijou Theater, 803 S. Gay Street Tickets Oh, to have been a fly…