The Florida Grand Opera has announced its 2021-22 season featuring four productions and celebrating its 80 anniversary. Andre Previn’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens the season in January. Performance Dates: Jan. 22-Feb. 5, 2022 Verdi’s masterpiece “Rigoletto” takes the stage in March with audiences getting a chance to hear some of the most popular melodies in opera. Performance Dates: March {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced the final part of chamber operas highlighting Modern American Composers. The season will conclude with the Double Bill, “Trouble in Tahiti” by Leonard Bernstein and “Signor Deluso” by Thomas Pasatieri and will be presented at the Miami Theater Center in Miami Shores on March 20 and 21. In a press release General Director and {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced the schedule and cast for its upcoming winter season. The FGO began its winter season with Jake Heggie’s “Three Decembers.” The 90-minute chamber opera takes place over three decades during the AIDS crisis. Emily Pulley, Amanda Sheriff, and Efraín Solís star with Gregory Buchalter conducting. Performance Dates: Dec. 30 & 31, 2021 Daren Hagen’s “New {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced that the 2020-21 main stage season in Miami and Fort Lauderdale “will not move forward.” The company announced that instead, it will move forward with its Songfest online recital series and its concert series featuring young artists. Concerts are scheduled to be performed through December with more to be announced for the spring portion {…}
Florida Grand Opera has announced that its Sunday Matinee for this week will be Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” This performance, recorded from the company’s 2017-18 season, stars Anna Christy in the title role, with Joshua Guerrero as Edgardo, Trevor Scheunemann as Enrico, and Chaz’men Williams-Ali as Arturo, with Alexander Polianichko conducting. Christy has garnered great acclaim for her interpretation of {…}
(Credit: Keith Rogers) Florida Grand Opera is set to revive the Verdi and Piave’s masterwork “Rigoletto” this March, April, and May. The company’s first slew of performances of “Rigoletto” are set for March 28-April 5 at the Arsht Center in Miami, with two additional showcases on April 30 and May 2, 2020 set for Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center. “Rigoletto” will {…}
The Flordia Grand Opera has announced its 2020-21 season celebrating its 80 anniversary, the seventh oldest opera company in America. This season Knight Concert Hall will become the new home for FGO’s Made for Miami series branded “Opera at Knight” to showcase 20th and 21st century operatic work. The season will open with Verdi’s popular masterwork “La traviata.” Performance Dates: {…}
With 2020 fully underway, opera companies are back in business. For this weekend’s recommendations, we feature a few repertory staples as well as some major new operas from the 21st century. Il barbiere di Siviglia – Canadian Opera Company Starting on Sunday, the Canadian Opera Company is back in business with conductor Speranza Scappucci leading Joan Font’s production of Rossini’s {…}
The Florida Grand Opera is set to open its 2020 slate with a production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” The famed opera will open on Jan. 18, 2020 in a gala performance that will celebrate the company’s 79th anniversary. The opera will be conducted by Ramón Tebar and directed by E. Loren Meeker. In the title role, audiences will get a {…}
You won’t find many repertory staples in this weekend’s top five choices, save for one exception. Otherwise, our recommendations feature two rare double bills and a plethora of new operas, including the first operas in Indigeneous languages of Cree and Sámi. Everest / Aleko – Chicago Opera Theater On Saturday and Sunday, the COT will present a unique double bill {…}
You have an opera about baseball. Two Spanish operas, including one about Mexico’s greatest artist. Then there’s a timely Britten work followed by a singer making her way back onstage after a grueling battle with cancer. These are the top five operas to see this weekend (in alphabetical order by company). The Rape of Lucretia – Boston Lyric Opera Britten’s {…}