{"id":3303,"date":"2014-11-12T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/furman-lyric-theatre-to-present-opera-scenes-recital\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:45:13","slug":"furman-lyric-theatre-to-present-opera-scenes-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-lyric-theatre-to-present-opera-scenes-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Lyric Theatre to present opera scenes recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15363\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mozart-statue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15363\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15363 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Mozart-statue-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University Lyric Theatre will present an opera scenes recital Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>The recital, \u201cOpera in the Classical Era: Gluck, Mozart, and Haydn,\u201d is free and open to the public and is presented by the Furman University Music Department.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is directed by Furman Professor of Voice and Director of Lyric Theatre Dr. Grant Knox. Nearly 20 students will perform scenes from \u201cDon Giovanni,\u201d \u201cLo speziale,\u201d \u201cOrfeo ed Euridice,\u201d and \u201cThe Impresario.\u201d Assisting Knox in directing is Furman senior Bryce McClendon. Furman Piano Professor Dr. David Gross provides accompaniment.<\/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. 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>Furman University Lyric Theatre will present an opera scenes recital Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus. \u201cOpera in the Classical Era: Gluck, Mozart, and Haydn,\u201d is free and open to the public.\u00a0The performance is directed by Furman Professor of Voice and Director of Lyric Theatre Dr. Grant Knox. Assisting Knox in directing is Furman senior Bryce McClendon. Furman Piano Professor Dr. David Gross provides accompaniment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}