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I'm guessing that with Harold Duckett serving a timeout for his horrendous factual errors in the preview last week, the NS had to get somebody else to write a "review" of Manon. Unfortunately, they found someone who knows even less about opera and theatre than Duckett does.

Frankly, this is not really a review at all--it is nothing more than an advertisement full of exaggerated praise designed to placate an advertiser. This sort of thing serves no one. It is not going to induce a non-opera person to buy a ticket. And it certainly doesn't inform or enlighten operagoers-most know bogus praise when they read it. Knoxville Opera is a true asset for Knoxville (and Knoxville operagoers) and they deserve better than gratuitous boosterism. We're big kids now, we can take it.

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One can argue about the quality of this writer's content, but inarguable is the bad spelling, particularly of performer's names. The latest in this article is "Jorraine" instead of "Lorraine" (Lorraine DiSimone). If this was an isolated case, one might overlook it, or chock it up to lack of editorial oversight. But since the spelling errors are not isolated, but happening in every article, I can only assume that Duckett is doing it intentionally as an insult. He called Rachel Barton Pine "Rachel Parton" and misspelled the head of Knoxville Opera, Brian Salesky. Well, shame on Duckett, and shame on the editors for allowing this pathetic stuff to continue.