South Florida Classical Review

January 31

Florida Grand Opera
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Eglise Gutierrez, Israel Lozano, Mark Walters
Ramon Tebar, conductor
2 p.m. Arsht Center/Ziff Ballet Opera House, Miami…

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This year’s South Florida Classical Review top ten list is a joint effort with the baton handoff on reviewing duties coming in early May.  WIthout further ado, the winners and…

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As the audience at Gusman Concert Hall listened to a performance of Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor on Monday evening, there was little hint of the…

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Seraphic Fire’s Messiah has quickly become a Christmas tradition in South Florida. With so many different performing versions of this masterpiece to choose from, what was heard…

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The Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian brought to the University of Miami’s Gusman Hall a luxuriant soprano voice of a quality rarely heard on South Florida’s opera stages.…

Violinist-conductor Pinchas Zukerman, one of the stars to emerge from Israel’s intense classical music culture, came to Miami with Israel’s finest orchestra Wednesday for a program that…

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Judging from his recital Sunday in Coral Gables, the young Russian-Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is a competent interpreter of Beethoven and a fine one of…

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The Tempest Trio offered an afternoon of bracing, high-wire chamber music performances Sunday afternoon at the elegant auditorium of Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.…

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Many wives learn to tolerate their husbands’ irritating habits. And then there is the unique burden borne by Amanda Forsyth, wife of the eminent Israeli-born violinist and…

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It was unusual enough for the Palm Beach Opera to open its season with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony rather than, say, Carmen or La Traviata. But at a…

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The atmosphere was medieval, dark and lit only by candles. From the back of the church, male voices began a solemn plainchant, singing Pater noster, qui es in…

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When you think of a Christmas concert, what may come to mind is an evening that starts with We Wish You a Merry Christmas, continues with Jingle Bells and…

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James Judd, a bit grayer but still an energetic presence on the podium, returned to the stage of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday…

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The conductor Osmo Vänskä, a product of Finland’s white-hot classical music scene, took the podium in South Beach Friday to lead the New World Symphony in a concert of…

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The Palm Beach County-based Delray String Quartet began an ambitious program of expansion to Broward and Miami-Dade counties with a concert Friday night at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Coral…

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The Miami choir Seraphic Fire announced Wednesday it will go on its first international tour next year, with a seven-day visit to Mexico.

The eight-year-old ensemble, which has earned…

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