Yes, it's true. Knoxville Opera's Rossini Festival is next weekend. Mark your calendars.
KOC's production is Rossini's comic masterpiece Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). In the cast is Andrew Garland as Figaro, the barber; Knoxville native Kevin Burdette as Bartolo; Craig Irvin as Basilio; Javier Abreu as Count Almaviva; Ryland Pope as Fiorello; Leah Wool as Rosina; and Dixie Roberts as Berta. Maestro Brian Salesky will conduct the Knoxxville Symphony Orchestra.
Performances are Friday evening (4/23), 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoon (4/25), 2:30 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville.
Kevin Burdette, the man of a thousand comic faces, (left: as Osmin in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires) returns to Knoxville following a breakthrough year at the Metropolitan Opera singing roles in Strauss' Elektra and Shostakovich's The Nose.
Be sure to check out the Rossini Festival insert in next week's METRO PULSE. The insert will have articles and information on the operas as well as information on the Italian Street Fair next Saturday on Gay Street. You really don't want to miss the Street Fair this year.
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