South Florida Classical Review

The experimental music scene in Miami is fairly circumscribed, compared to larger music centers like New York, Chicago or San Francisco. Yet, amazingly for a contentious enclave like Miami,

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SAN FRANCISCO: The course of opera history is nearly biblical in its received wisdom and fixed chronological lineage: Monteverdi and Rameau begat Purcell who begat Handel who begat Mozart,

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The music season is heating up this weekend with several worthy events, unfortunately, many competing at the same times.

7:30 p.m. Saturday: The New World Symphony will serve up its…

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The world’s popular songbooks of the 20th and 21st centuries have been notably enriched by the music of Spanish America, but that’s far less true for its orchestral and sacred…

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SAN FRANCISCO: Of Verdi’s greatest works, Simon Boccanegra remains the least performed. After an unsuccessful 1857 premiere, the composer, much like his protagonist, continued to brood upon its failure,

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SAN FRANCISCO—”The guy needs a psychiatrist,” said one woman in the audience of Paul, the obsessed protagonist of Die tote Stadt. Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s once-celebrated, uber-Romantic opera opened Tuesday

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The Metropolitan Opera opened its 125th season Monday night with a glitzy, relentlessly promoted evening as Renee Fleming tackled a trio of favored roles in separate staged acts, with tenor…

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It’s a rare experience to encounter the music of Ligeti in South Florida but one will have that chance Saturday night when the composer comes to Miami to perform

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Seraphic Fire opens its seventh season this week, one that should prove significant for Patrick Dupre Quigley (left) and his gifted singers. In addition to the chamber choir offering its…

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For the first time in history, you can attend the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night without having to travel to Manhattan. Monday night’s gala event with Renee Fleming will be

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With Festival Miami starting in October this season, September is more musically barren than usual, but there are still some isolated events.

The New World Symphony does not open its…

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The only constant in life is change and that surely applies to South Florida—the epicenter of transience—more than most places. Across three counties, the volatile, ceaselessly mutating music scene is…

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The string quartet has occupied a strange place in the American musical landscape. While it was the medium of choice for the deepest and most profound thoughts of Beethoven, Schubert,…

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Even in a Latin cultural milieu like Miami, rarely does one encounter the classical music of Mexico. Once in a great while, Silvestre Revueltas’ Sensemaya is aired but even the…

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Late notice but the talented Orpheus Duo is presenting an intriguing (and free) program of Mexican chamber music this week. Cellist Javier Arias and pianist Mia Vassilev will team up…

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Violinist Elmar Oliveira’s appearance at Gusman Concert Hall for Sunday Afternoons of Music has been cancelled due to the threat this weekend of Hurricane Ike. The event may be rescheduled…

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If anyone deserves credit for the lengthening music season in South Florida, it’s Doreen Marx. Last season Marx’s Sunday Afternoons of Music series stretched into June, and this weekend

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