Nashville Opera and Dyer Present ‘Opera on the Mountain’ June 15

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The Nashville Opera and Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory will present Opera on the Mountain, a special evening of music and star-gazing, on Saturday, June 15. “We are so pleased to be presenting Opera on the Mountain with Vanderbilt University’s Dyer Observatory,” says Noah Spiegel, Nashville Opera’s Chief Operating Officer. “This event is so popular with Nashville [...]

Opera review: ‘Magic Flute’ Provides Spellbinding End to Nashville Opera Season

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The Magic Flute provides a spellbinding end to a marvelous season for Nashville Opera. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s singspiel (literally “sing-play”) celebration of fantasy, romance and masonic values for the masses remains highly popular nearly 222 years after its Sept. 30, 1791, Vienna premiere – in fact, Operabase statistics show it’s currently the fourth most-produced opera [...]

Marion Pickering Couch Honored for Nashville Opera Volunteer Work

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Opera Volunteers International has announced that Marion Pickering Couch, a Nashville Opera Guild member, will receive the prestigious Partners in Excellence Award for her lifetime of work on behalf of Nashville Opera. “Nashville Opera is thrilled that Opera Volunteers International chose such a worthy volunteer from the Nashville Opera Guild to receive their organization’s highest [...]

Lea Maitlen Joins ArtsNash as Director of Marketing

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ArtsNash is proud to announce that Lea D. Maitlen has been named its director of marketing. In her new position Maitlen will oversee marketing, branding and advertising for the nonprofit organization. “Lea Maitlen brings a unique background to ArtsNash,” ArtsNash President John Pitcher says. “As the former senior marketing manager of Naxos of America, she [...]

Mozart’s Enchanting ‘Magic Flute’ Ends Nashville Opera Season

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Nashville Opera’s final production of the 2012-13 season is a grand staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Performances are Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m. at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall (505 Deaderick St.). The production is directed by John Hoomes, General and [...]

Exciting Mix of Traditional and New at Nashville Opera in 2013-14

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The 2013-14 Nashville Opera season will feature a tale of exotic Ceylon, a contemporary story of the healing power of music, a family-friendly comedy set in Seville and a classic based on a Shakespearean drama featuring one of the most memorable villains in all of opera. New season tickets are available by calling (615) 832-5242 [...]

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Nashville’s vibrant arts scene has kept the editors, writers and interns of ArtsNash busy. Since the beginning of this season, we have posted more than 300 stories and reviews. Naturally, we have written about many of Nashville’s major cultural institutions – the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera [...]

Metropolitan Opera star Eric Owens performs Saturday in Nashville

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As a teenager, Eric Owens once took a train from his home in Philadelphia to New York City, where he got a standing-room-only ticket to watch James Levine conduct Wagner’s Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera. Little did Owens suspect that he would one day be the undisputed star of the same opera at that [...]

ArtsNash Launches Internship Program Fundraising Campaign

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From ArtsNash Co-Founders John Pitcher and Evans Donnell Dear Readers, At ArtsNash we certainly strive to inform, but we also want to educate. It’s our hope that arts lovers will continue to read about the groups and artists they love from a new generation of writers. And our nonprofit organization needs your help to do that. Giving [...]

Opera superstar Denyce Graves will headline Belmont concert

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As one of the Metropolitan Opera’s biggest stars, Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is in more or less constant demand. She’s not easy to book. Nevertheless, a recent invitation to perform at Belmont University caught her eye. “When they asked me to perform in their new concert hall, I was absolutely thrilled,” says Graves, who was on [...]