Best New Collaboration

Collaboration is vital to the success of any arts community. So expectations were high when Nashville Opera and the Nashville Film Festival teamed up for the first Opera Noir Filmfest. The project invited some of Tennessee’s most daring filmmakers to create two-minute black-and-white films inspired by Nashville Opera artistic director John Hoomes’ new noir staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Winners were announced and screened at the oh-so-posh Black & White Bash on March 1. And while COVID-19 forced Nashville Opera to push Rigoletto to its 2021 season, the new partnership proved to be a creative — and stylish — hit. AMY STUMPFL

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