Marble City Opera has announced its 2026 season. The season opens with “Josephine” by Tom Cipullo inside the Historic Grove Theater about the life of Josephine Baker. Soprano Manna K. Jones stars as Josephine. Performance Date: May 30, 2026 The company will then perform “Opera in the Park,” a free concert at Lakeshore Park in Knoxville. The event features food {…}
Marble City Opera is set to open its 13th season on Sept. 14, 2025 with a concert titled “Baritones, Boots, & Bats.” The performance, which will take place at the Historic Cherokee Caverns, will feature Maurice Hendricks, Daniel Spiotta, and Joel Brown performing a program of opera and musical theater favorites. The baritones will be accompanied by pianist Dustin Lin. This {…}
The Marble City Opera has announced the appointment of Ryan Colbert as the Associate Executive Artistic Director. Colbert will begin in her new position on August 1, 2025. In a statement, Founding Executive Artistic Director Kathryn Frady said, “Ryan brings a wealth of experience and dedication to the opera art form coupled with a knowledge, understanding, and commitment to Marble {…}
Marble City Opera has announced its inaugural Opera in the Park concert. The concert will take place on June 6, 2025, at Lakeshore Park in Knoxville and will be free to the public. In a statement, Marble City Opera’s Executive Artistic Director Kathryn Frady said, “As a dedicated nonprofit organization, Marble City Opera remains steadfast in our mission to make {…}
Marble City Opera is set to close its 2025-26 season with two performances of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” on June 5 and 7, 2025. The performances will be held at the A.K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The work returns to the company after it presented a “socially-distanced version of ‘Pagliacci’ in August 2020. In a statement, Marble City Opera’s Executive {…}
Marble City Opera is set to present an immersive, site-specific production of “The Human Voice.” The production is set to be presented on on April 3, 4, and 5, 2025 at the Historic Westwood in Knoxville, Tennessee. “The Human Voice” was composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958 and is a one-act monodrama based on a play by Jean Cocteau. Soprano {…}
Marble City Opera is set to present a concert of opera and musical theatre favorites on Feb. 23, 2025. The concert will be held at the Historic Grove Theater in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and will feature soprano Kathryn Frady, tenor Cody Boling, soprano Jamey Owen, baritone Daniel Spiotta, and pianist Brandon Coffer. Frady, who is also Marble City Opera’s Executive {…}
Marble City Opera has announced the 2025 Pop-Up Opera Party, an annual fundraising gala. The gala will take place on Jan. 25, 2025, at the Dogwood Center at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens. The event will feature several opera performances popping up during the course of the evening and different arias will be performed by singers who have been mingling among {…}
Marble City Opera is set to present “Bon Appétit!” and a cake-baking class on Nov. 14, 2024. The evening will be presented at The Cutting Edge Classroom in Knoxville. Audiences will first enjoy the opera and then make their own cake to take home. “Bon Appétit!” was composed by Lee Hoiby for his friend Jean Stapleton, who sang its 1989 {…}
Marble City Opera is set to present a concert titled “Faith, Hope, and Love.” The concert will be performed on Sept. 8, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in Knoxville’s Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and will be part of the Cathedral Concert Series. It will feature music from Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Leoncavallo, and others performed by soprano Kathryn {…}
Marble City Opera is set to open its 12th season with a concert titled “Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalacites.” The concert will be held on August 17, 2024 inside Historic Cherokee Caverns, where the “temperature is always 58° and the acoustics are excellent.” Cody Boling, John Overholt, and Chris Plaas will sing a program of opera and musical theater favorites and {…}