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UT Opera Theatre Present's Robert Ward's "The Crucible"

The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre and orchestra are presenting Robert Ward's Pulitzer Prize winning opera, The Crucible, Friday, April 21st through Sunday, April 23rd. Based on Arthur Miller's famous play, this dramatic and moving work will be performed at the Bijou Theatre in downtown Knoxville. In this interview, Morning Concert host, Melony Dodson, talks with stage director, James Marvel, and graduate students, Ian Bolden (singing the role of John Proctor) and Emily Simmons (singing the role of Abigail Williams).

Tickets are available at the door. More information is available at www.music.utk.edu/opera

Melony calls the beautiful mountains of Boone, N.C., home, although she was born near Greensboro, N.C. There’s just something about those Blue Ridge Mountains that got in her blood and never left after she moved there to attend Appalachian State University (ASU). While at ASU, she majored in piano performance and music therapy and began to cultivate a love for accompanying and for collaborating with other musicians. This soon led her to earn a master’s degree in collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee, which she attended from 2006-2008.