Southeast Region

The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Guild is a non-profit organization of some 200 volunteers-homemakers, business executives, teachers, artists, decorators, nurses, and other professionals - dedicated to promoting and supporting our superb Symphony and Opera.

630 Chestnut St

Chattanooga, TN 37402 USA
Ph: (423) 267-8583

The Knoxville Opera Guild is a volunteer organization whose mission is to promote the appreciation of that magical combination of voice, music and drama called opera and support the production of this wonderful art form in the greater Knoxville area.

Through a variety of fund raising events which include an Annual Gala Ball, an Annual Martini Party and an Annual Croquet Tournament, the Guild raises in excess of one hundred thousand dollars annually for Knoxville Opera.

info@knoxvilleoperaguild.org

P.O. Box 16

Knoxville, TN 37901-0016 USA
Ph: (865) 524-0795

For the more than 20 years since its founding, Nashville Opera Guild members have cherished their role in preserving and promoting Grand Opera in Middle Tennessee through their support of the Nashville Opera Association, Inc.

For the Guild, Opera is the gateway to all fine arts–poetry, music, sculpture, painting, design, and dance. The musical score excites and then invites you, the listener, into the emotional realm of superior story-telling that is the heart of every opera. Modern English subtitles allow opera-goers to understand every scene regardless of the language being sung.

jsneed@nashvilleopera.org

The Noah Liff Opera Center
3622 Redmon St.
Nashville, TN 37209 USA
Ph: 615.832.5242

operatampa@tbpac.org

1010 North W.C. MacInnes Pl.

Tampa, FL 33602 USA
Ph: 813.222.1003

The Young Patronesses of the Opera (YPO), is a non-profit organization whose mission is to cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor, educate and develop the understanding, taste and love of opera in our community.

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Opera Memphis was chartered in 1956 by a group of Memphians interested in producing regional opera. Charter signatories included noted Memphians Philip Belz and Walter Chandler. Early productions consisted mainly of local singers and local directors. During this initial period the Metropolitan Opera toured regularly through the area and performed in Memphis two to three times per year. As the company grew, the performers and directors became more regional and the sets and costumes more professional. By the mid-1970s, Opera Memphis began bringing in well-known singers like, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Sherrill Milnes, and Birgit Nilsson, to perform in lead roles.

In 1992, Michael Ching became the new General/Artistic Director of Opera Memphis. Singing artists in this period have included Barbara Dever, Robert Orth, and Kallen Esperian.

Opera Memphis is widely respected for its education and outreach programs, which currently reach over 18,000 children and adults per season with partnerships with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Grace House, Harbor House and the Gaston Park Library. From 1993-95, Opera Memphis was the recipient of an Arts Plus Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This major funding resulted in student written and produced operas at three Memphis City high schools. Recently, new programs have been added including annual opera camps for children ages 7-11 and a more advanced camp for Teens.

info@operamemphis.org

The Clark Opera Memphis Center
6745 Wolf River Parkway
Memphis, TN 38120 USA
Ph: 901-257-3100