The Florida Grand Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” opens the season and will be directed by Jeffrey Marc Buchman. Performance Dates: Nov. 16, 17 & 19 at Miami and Dec. 5 & 7 at Fort Lauderdale Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” will be the second opera and will be directed by Matt Cooksey. Performance Dates: Feb. {…}
The Florida Grand Opera will celebrate its 82nd Anniversary with a black-tie Gala, titled “What Would You Do for Love.” The event will be held on March 16 at the Temple House. FGO’s newly appointed Board Chair, Tina Vidal-Duart,will announce the plans for the reimagined future of the opera company, with special performances by Radmila Lolly and Samy Hawk. Opera {…}
Florida Grand Opera has announced a Winter Concert Tour. First up is “Songfest: From the Page to the Stage.”The concert will feature FGO Studio Artists, the second concert of the SongFest series at the Riviera Presbyterian Church in Coral Gables and at the Center for Spiritual Living in Oakland Park. Drawing from the works of authors like William Shakespeare, Alexander {…}
Florida Grand Opera has announced that Tina Vidal-Duart is the company’s new Chair of the Board of Directors. She will take over for Per Olof Lööf, who has been working with her over the past year as she transitions from Chair-Elect to her new role. Lööf held the role since 2019. “As the new Chair of this esteemed opera house, {…}
The Florida Grand Opera Interim General Director Maria Todaro has announced that FGO will support Miss Florida, Juliette Valle, with special training for her Miss America Competition talent segment. Valle is an aspiring operatic soprano who will compete with “Sempre libera” from Verdi’s “La Traviata.” In a statement, Todaro said, “We are so thrilled to work with this talented young {…}
(Credit: Eric Joannes) Florida Grand Opera has announced that Maria Todaro will serve as the company’s Interim General Director throughout the 2023-24 season. Todaro commenced her professional life as a mezzo-soprano and entrepreneur. She founded the company Arteodor and took on a stage directing career where she worked with such organizations as Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, and Hawai’i Opera Theater. {…}
Florida Grand Opera has announced a unique new concert season. “We are breaking out of the box and exploring a lot of new things,” says Director of Artistic Operations Matt Cooksey said in an official press statement. “Even though we have great traditional operas at the big houses, this season is about challenging ourselves to prepare innovative vocal concerts in {…}
The Florida Grand Opera’s General Director and CEO Susan T. Danis has announced her resignation. Danis has been the leader of the opera company for more than a decade and announced that she was leaving to pursue another opportunity. However, she will remain with the company through a transition period to help ensure that the coming season is off to {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced its 2023-24 season with three renowned operas. The season opens with Verdi’s timeless classic “La Traviata.” The opera will star Cecilia Violetta López, Pavel Petrov, and Troy Cook. Chía Patiño directs and Joe Illick conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 11 – Dec. 2, 2023 The second opera of the season will be Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci.” It {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced its 2023-4 Studio Artists. The artists are Sara Kennedy, Taylor-Alexis DuPont, Joseph McBrayer, Joseph Canuto Leon, and Keith Klein. The studio artists will spend the full season performing principal and comprimario roles alongside FGO’s roster of acclaimed directors, conductors, and musicians. They will also perform more often in concerts all over Miami-Dade and Broward {…}
This August, Florida Grand Opera is set to shine the spotlight on its administrative staff in “Staff Sing.” Per an official press release, the company will feature soprano/Director of Finance Susana Diaz, mezzo-soprano/Artistic Administration and Finance Associate Lauren Frick, contralto/Marketing and Communications Manager Cindy Sadler, tenor/Development Associate Peter Rivera, baritone/Director of Artistic Operations Matt Cooksey, and bass-baritone/Samuel M. Townsend Studio {…}