Nashville Opera
Britten’s ‘Turn of the Screw’
On January 24th-26th Nashville Opera will offer a production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, a chilling ghost story based on Henry James’ novella of the same name. Premiered in 1954, it features one of Britten’s favorite narratives, corruption and innocence coupled with the conflict between good versus evil, here set within a staid domestic Essex country house. One of the best horror operas of the genre The opera is regarded by many as the finest of all Britten’s stage-works, with much of the music derived organically from a twelve-note tonal “screw-theme” heard near the work’s opening. FromRead More
Oz Arts Presents
Local Artists in “The Longest Night”
On December 20th and 21st Oz Arts Nashville presented The Longest Night, an interdisciplinary collaboration celebrating the winter solstice, and the next installment of their season’s eight different projects spearheaded by Nashville-based artists. It was an all-inclusiveRead More
the Nashville Symphony
Handel’s Messiah at the Schermerhorn
On December 19-22 the Nashville Symphony gave its annual production of Georg Frederic Handel’s Messiah at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall, featuring soprano Mary Wilson, mezzo soprano Elizabeth Batton, tenor Garrett Sorenson, and bass Andrew Foster-Williams. This holiday tradition,Read More
the Nashville Symphony presents
the Subtle Similarities of Brahms, Dvořák, Adams and Ives
On the rainy weekend of October 25th, the Nashville Symphony performed a program that included works by Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms, John Adams, and Charles Ives. The program reflected contemporariesRead More
