{"id":331,"date":"2007-08-23T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.lib.utk.edu\/news\/music\/2007\/08\/23\/ut-grad-trains-performs-among-operas-best\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:06:09","slug":"ut-grad-trains-performs-among-operas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2007\/08\/ut-grad-trains-performs-among-operas-best\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Grad Trains, Performs among Opera&#8217;s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Kristina Dean on the AT\" src=\"http:\/\/pr.utk.edu\/etorch\/2007\/09\/images\/opera-compton.jpg\" style=\"width: 156px;height: 188px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>More than 650 wanted to sing, but only 28 got the nod. UT graduate William Compton was one of them.<br \/>\nWhat inspired such spirited competition? The opportunity to perform for the summer at the renowned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmerglass.org\/\">Glimmerglass Opera<\/a> in Cooperstown, N.Y.<br \/>\nCompton &#8217;04, a tenor, earned a slot in the opera&#8217;s Young American Artists program, which offers performance and study opportunities for some of the best early-career talent in the world of opera. Glimmerglass presents 43 productions of four operas during its annual festival season in July and August. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/pr.utk.edu\/etorch\/2007\/09\/opera.shtml\">eTorch News<\/a><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 650 wanted to sing, but only 28 got the nod. UT graduate William Compton was one of them. What inspired such spirited competition? The opportunity to perform for the summer at the renowned Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y. Compton &#8217;04, a tenor, earned a slot in the opera&#8217;s Young American Artists program, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2007\/08\/ut-grad-trains-performs-among-operas-best\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UT Grad Trains, Performs among Opera&#039;s Best - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2007\/08\/ut-grad-trains-performs-among-operas-best\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UT Grad Trains, Performs among Opera&#039;s Best - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than 650 wanted to sing, but only 28 got the nod. 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