September 17 at 6pm

Behind the Scenes

6:00 pm

Live Behind the Scenes Interview with Executive Director, Kathryn Frady & composer Larry Delinger

February 7, 2021

The Soldier's Tale

2:30 pm

MCO is joining together with the Knoxville Symphony as a part of their Chamber Classic Series to tell the charming cautionary tale of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil for fame and fortune through narration, dance, and music. Tickets can be purchased through the Knoxville Symphony

August 13, 14, & 15, 2020

I Pagliacci

7:30 pm

This non-traditional production of I Pagliacci will make you feel a part of the action. The clown troupe arrives at the Tennessee Amphitheater at World's Fair Park to tell this story of jealously, love, and murder. 

March 11, 12, & 13, 2021

Royal Flush 

* World Premiere

7:30 pm & 2:30pm

Five women play poker – badly. As four of them try to exploit each other’s “tells”, the nature of their relationships comes to light. At the showdown, their mutual bonds and vulnerabilities are laid bare, as the fifth woman pegs them all and runs the table in a hilarious and heartwarming fashion

November 6 & 7, 2020

Winterreise

7:30 pm

This song cycle is  based on 24 poems by Wilhelm Muller will be performed as a monodrama with staging and video projections to help tell the story from the point of view of the wanderer who begins a long winter journey after his beloved falls for another. 

June 4, 5, & 6, 2021

Tosca

7:30 pm 

Not your traditional viewing of Tosca. MCO will be producing this classic in a non-traditional way. Act I will begin in the cathedral, and the audience will follow the action to the great hall for Act II, and the courtyard for the dramatic finale in Act III.