South Florida Classical Review

            Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party on Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton to the Gusman Concert Hall stage. Leaders [...]

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November 28
Florida Grand Opera
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kelly Kaduce, Jay Hunter Morris, Mark Rucker; Andrew Bisantz, conductor
8 p.m. Arsht Center/Ziff Ballet Opera House
fgo.org; 800-741-1010

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Festival Miami and the Chopin Foundation presented an evening of “Chopin Reflections” Wednesday night, spotlighting Kevin Kenner, a major prizewinner at Warsaw’s Chopin International Piano [...]

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The New World Symphony celebrated Beethoven the humanist on Saturday at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall. Excerpts from the opera Fidelio, a rescue-drama parable [...]

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        Since his 2001 professional debut, Luca Pisaroni has made headlines in the musical press around the world. The Italian opera singer won the “Newcomer [...]

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As the Miami Symphony Orchestra rehearses Dvorak’s Cello Concerto the soloist sways to the music, carefully eyeing the conductor’s beat and dynamics. This is a [...]

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At the end of World War II, the heroism and suffering of the Soviet people demanded a monumental work from their leading composer, and Dmitri [...]

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Locked in a desperate war with a totalitarian enemy, a nation’s leaders gathered to seek inspiration from one of the greatest works of Western music.
It’s [...]

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The Frost Wind Ensemble presented a concert of 21st century American music on Wednesday at Festival Miami. This snapshot of works from the past decade [...]

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         Festival Miami presented “Six Operas in Sixty Minutes,” an innovative program by the Frost Opera Theater, on Tuesday at Gusman Concert Hall. Lukas Foss perfected this [...]

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Festival Miami can usually be counted on for some interesting programs, and this was certainly the case Sunday night, when the Bergonzi String Quartet was [...]

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Attendants in the lobby offered free flutes of champagne. The house was sold out, with a waiting list for returned tickets. The conductor raised his [...]

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The Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater in Fort Lauderdale was sold out. A couple of women in their 20s whispered excitedly to each other. A pre-teen [...]

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    A Boca Raton brew pub and hookah bar may seem an unlikely location for performances of Ravel, Ligeti and Ysaye, but a couple of [...]

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A brilliant, exuberant performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 on Friday marked the first night of Festival Miami, the traditional start of the South [...]

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In these challenging times, arts organizations do what they must to sell tickets.  And so on Thursday the Miami choir Seraphic Fire opened its eighth [...]

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