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From the Nashville Opera

The Barber of Seville: What a Night for a Haircut

The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini is the quintessential opera buffa. Even if you’ve never heard of the opera, you’ve probably heard snippets of “Figaro, Figaro, Figaro,” from theRead More

Nashville Opera is:

”Shining’ a Light on Horror in Opera

Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls are old friends of the opera scene. Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart, Faust by Charles Gunuod, The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten, andRead More

Coming to Nashville Opera

The Sounds and Conventions of Madness in Moravec’s The Shining

In 2016, composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell premiered their adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining at St. Paul’s Ordway Center for Performing Arts with great success and excitement.Read More

from the Nashville Opera

Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore

“We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty; We’re sober men and true, and attentive to our duty!” This boisterous opening chorus immediately set the tone forRead More

The Ties that Bind:

Bizet’s Carmen at the Nashville Opera

Bernardo Medeiros (Zuniga), Sara Crigger (Mercedes), Marina Costa-Jackson (Carmen), and Dee Donasco (Frasquita) in "Les tringles des sistres tintaient"
The lights in the theatre dim and the chattering crowd is suddenly silent, drinks with condensation dripping off them clutched tightly as the orchestra, one behemoth of magical sound, beginsRead More

The MCR Interview

Interview with Kathryn Lewek

In celebration of the approaching production of Carmen at Nashville Opera, Music City Review Journalist Sarah Featherston had the chance to sit down with Soprano Kathryn Lewek and chat aboutRead More

de la ópera de nashville

La ópera necesitaba a Florencia y el realismo mágico necesitaba una ópera 

(English Version here: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Ic) —¡Hace años que esperábamos este momento! Una llave de plata: la voz luminosa de Florencia Grimaldi reabrirá la cerradura dormida del teatro – Anunciaba un hombreRead More

From the Nashville Opera

The opera needed Florencia, and magical realism needed an opera 

(versión en español aquí: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Ib) — For years we have waited for this moment! A silver key: Florencia Grimaldi’s dazzling voice will reopen the theater’s dormant lock – announced aRead More

A Tragic Ambush at the Noah Liff:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

As far back as the antiquity of Plato, Western culture has sought a rational explanation for the power that music has over us. As a rational pursuit this is pureRead More

Voices Behind the Gauze: Nashville Opera’s The Medium

You really feel the passion when Nashville Opera’s Artistic Director, John Hoomes, pleads the case for the operas of Gian Carlo Menotti. In his program note for the Nashville Opera’sRead More