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What’s in store for the upcoming season?!
Renewal subscriptions now underway! New subscriptions and single tickets available in July.
Maestro Salesky’s onstage opera preview begins 45 minutes prior to each performance.
Friday, October 25, 2013 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, October 27, 2013 @ 2:30pm
all performances at the magnificent Tennessee Theatre
A dramatic, visually stunning production!
In his world of fantasy and demons, the poet Hoffmann pursues four mesmerizing women: a life-sized mechanical doll, an aspiring chanteuse, a Venetian courtesan, and an opera diva; only to be thwarted at every turn by four diabolical villians. A thrilling Halloween appetizer!
Performed in French with English supertitles.
The Wells Fargo Advisors production of
Friday, February 14, 2014 @ 8:00pm VALENTINE’S NIGHT!
Sunday, February 16, 2014 @ 2:30pm
all performances at the magnificent Tennessee Theatre
Presented in memory of Luciano Pavarotti
Elixir, the perfect romantic comedy for your Valentine, is filled with dazzling vocal fireworks and melodies that will melt your heart. Nemorino downs a love potion to steal the feisty Adina away from a dashing sergeant. “Liquid courage” triumphs!
Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, April 13, 2014 @ 2:30pm
all performances at the magnificent Tennessee Theatre
Knoxville Opera Premiere
A triangle of forbidden love unfolds against the backdrop of war between the Gauls and the Romans. Norma, the Druid Priestess, unable to protect her people and humiliated by her own actions, throws herself into the flames of the temple’s sacrificial pyre. Some of opera’s most dramatic and ravishing music!
Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival
International Street Fair
Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Downtown Knoxville
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Knoxville Opera’s mission is to provide the residents of East Tennessee with high quality, locally produced opera and to contribute to the future of the operatic art form by educating the community about opera and its role in our culture. Knoxville Opera, founded in 1978, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization presenting productions made possible, in part, by generous funding from our patrons, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Knoxville, the Arts and Culture Alliance of Knoxville, the Arts & Heritage Fund and the Cole Foundation.
