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		<title>Rossini is now International!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, April 28th 11:00am &#8211; 9:00pm Downtown Knoxville The Rossini Festival is one of the region’s largest and most beloved special event. It serves as a celebration of the performing arts. “The performing arts are much too diverse to promote as one culture. The Italian flair we’ve enjoyed for the first 10 years is being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arts in Education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Torano, Director of Marketing and Public Relations Where are the arts in our schools? “When I was a student, I remember music, dance, drawing, singing classes”.  I hear this quite consistently in my discussions with patrons, corporate sponsors, and fellow parents.  As a father of two boys, ages 15 and 8, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Masque Ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Davis, President Elect Knoxville Opera Guild Le Masque Ball, the major fundraiser of the Knoxville Opera Guild, was held on November 12 at Cherokee Country Club. As the name of the ball infers, many of the guests were decked out in unique and festive masks. Jeannine and Doug McKamey judged the mask contest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Romance of Romeo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brian Salesky, Executive Director and Conductor Knoxville Opera will be celebrating and performing music and drama inspired by the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers throughout January and February and you are invited to luxuriate in the romance! The highlight of this celebration is our Valentine’s weekend production of Gounod’s lush French grand opera Romeo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something In This Box&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obsession….lust….jealousy….rage….grief. These words conjure the foundation of most every opera as well as the plot of most episodes of The Real Housewives of… La Traviata, Verdi’s poignant story of an exquisite, glamorous courtesan who abandons the man of her dreams out of her love for him. He comes from a notable family and her background [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva Rossini!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knoxville Opera delivers culture to downtown Knoxville for citizens and visitors of East Tennessee. As we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival and Italian Street Fair, we gratefully look back on our beginnings with founding underwriters Dr. Monroe and Sandra Trout. Their gifts and insights have contributed to culture and community for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great talent here in Knoxville</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s great to be back in Knoxville! I just finished up a production of Carmen in South Africa and after 24 hours of flying, I am now here in Knoxville. I had so much fun working on last year’s production of Barber of Seville, and now I’ve returned for a very different kind of piece. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Manon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is Manon Lescaut? It was a question I asked myself over and over as I learned this opera and began to craft how I would put it on stage. She is an enigma to be sure. We like to call her a &#8220;sexpot&#8221; or a &#8220;femme fatale,&#8221; and she certainly embodies these things, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Feast for the Senses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been pondering for at least the last year about establishing a blog presence for our small, regional opera company. Why it’s taken this long to finally post our debut is beyond comprehension but here we go. I’m often asked about why I think someone should come to an opera. Why I chose to work [...]]]></description>
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