{"id":1693,"date":"2016-02-22T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/opera-scenes-recital-oct-29\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:54:53","slug":"opera-scenes-recital-oct-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/opera-scenes-recital-oct-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera scenes recital Oct. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8753\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/opera1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8753\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8753 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/opera1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Furman University music department will present an opera scenes recital Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>The recital, \u201cAn Evening of Opera in English,\u201d is free and open to the public, and includes excerpts from operas by Britten, Corigliano, Adamo, Sullivan, and Menotti.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is directed by Furman professor of voice and director of lyric theatre, Grant Knox. Performing the scenes are students in Knox\u2019s Opera Workshop. They are accompanied by Furman piano professor David Gross.<\/p>\n<p>Knox joined the Furman music faculty in 2013. An American tenor, Knox enjoys a varied career in opera, musical theater, concert and recital. He has appeared with the Cincinnati Opera, Atlanta Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and Chautauqua Opera, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Equally versed in concert repertoire, Knox has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic, Cobb Symphony, Binghamton Philharmonic, and others, and has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>As a recording artist, Knox can be heard on the complete cast recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s \u201cThe Grand Duke\u201d and \u201cThe Sorcerer,\u201d Offenbach\u2019s \u201cThe Brigands,\u201d Romberg\u2019s \u201cMaytime,\u201d and Kalman\u2019s \u201cThe Carnival Fairy,\u201d all released on the Albany Records label.\u00a0Knox holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate from Northwestern University&#8217;s Bienen School of Music.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the recital, call the Furman Music Office at 864-294-2086.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University music department will present an opera scenes recital Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall.\u00a0The recital, \u201cAn Evening of Opera in English,\u201d includes excerpts from operas by Britten, Corigliano, Adamo, Sullivan, and Menotti.\u00a0The performance is directed by Furman professor of voice and director of lyric theatre, Grant Knox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}