Knoxville Opera’s 2019-2020 season will include two classic favorites and a powerful work by a rising star on the American opera scene.
Season subscriptions are now on sale for Giacomo Puccini’s …
Classroom Q&A: Michael Rodgers, Maynard/South Knox
A native of Williamsburg, Va., Michael Rodgers moved to East Tennessee to study music at Knoxville College. After graduating, he earned a master’s degree at the University of Tennessee and …
Eat, play, love: Rossini Festival is Saturday
In two days, downtown will be taken over – but don’t run and hide! Run toward the Knoxville Opera’s 18th Annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair.
From 10 a.m. to 9 …
Meryl Dominguez mesmerizes in ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’
It didn’t take any guessing to figure out that all is not well at Lammermoor Castle in Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 opera “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which Knoxville Opera presented this weekend …
Knoxville Opera captivates students at Eagleton Middle
The floor of Ravenswood Castle in 17th-century Lammermoor, Scotland, had a basketball mid-court line running right through the central staircase. The instruments of the orchestra had been abandoned in favor …
Sunday is end date for opera’s ‘Schicchi’
Knoxville Opera’s first mostly local production in many years, a double bill of an adaption of Mozart’s 1786 “The “Impresario”” and a traditional performance of Puccini’s 1918 “Gianni Schicchi,” is …
Fun times two in Knoxville Opera’s double-bill
Everyone at Knoxville Opera was working hard in dress rehearsals at the Tennessee Theatre Tuesday night preparing for KO’s double bill of Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi,” being presented by the fictional …
‘Turandot’ is creative, theatrical success
Put Knoxville Opera chorus master Don Townsend’s always superbly prepared KO Chorus in the hands of director Jon Hoomes and you get an oriental town filled with involved citizens in …