South Florida Classical Review

“Magic Flute” provides a mostly delightful Mozart evening in Sarasota

Oscars, shmoscars. While most of the country was watching the Academy Awards Sunday night, those in attendance at Sarasota Opera were treated to a largely [...]

Wed Mar 10, 2010
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Her famous voice still in admirable shape, Kiri charms audience at the Broward Center

It may be difficult for many opera fans to accept the fact that Kiri Te Kanawa has just turned 66. The glamorous soprano, who performed [...]

Wed Mar 10, 2010
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Not much prime Verdi at stake in “Giovanna d’Arco” but Sarasota Opera provides worthy advocacy

For an organization that performs just four works in its main spring festival, Sarasota Opera has been more adventurous than most major or regional companies. [...]

Tue Mar 09, 2010
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Onay ends impressively with Chopin and Ravel at Miami Piano Fest

The Miami International Piano Festival Master Series continued on Monday night at the Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater with a recital by Gulsin Onay. The Turkish [...]

Tue Mar 09, 2010
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In a cynical age, Sarasota Opera’s “Hansel und Gretel” works its traditional magic

Even with—or perhaps because of— its radiant music, childish innocence, and spiritual theme, Hansel und Gretel has fallen on hard times.
Oh, Engelbert Humperdinck’s children’s opera [...]

Mon Mar 08, 2010
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Itin opens Miami Piano Festival with explosive wartime Prokofiev

Ilya Itin is well known to Miami audiences, having appeared at the Miami International Piano Festival many times. The Russian-born pianist is a powerhouse musician, [...]

Mon Mar 08, 2010
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Hot Ginastera comes off best in uneven Delray Quartet program

In its expanded program of concerts this season, the Delray String Quartet has explored music of South America, earlier with one of the quartets of [...]

Mon Mar 08, 2010
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Fleming shines at Boca Raton’s Festival of the Arts

As perhaps the best-known star in opera today, Renée Fleming could probably coast on her looks, voice and rapport with audiences.
And if ever there was [...]

Sun Mar 07, 2010
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Sarasota Opera’s “Cav & Pag” proves a varied bag of verismo

Even with their enduring popularity, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are difficult works to bring off. While complementary in their unbridled vocal demands and tales of [...]

Sat Mar 06, 2010
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Renée Fleming stresses hard work and ease of production at Frost master class

On Friday afternoon four students from the University of Miami Frost School of Music had the dream opportunity to receive coaching from one of the [...]

Sat Mar 06, 2010
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Artemis Quartet delivers a night of memorable Beethoven

String quartets rarely inspire mid-concert standing ovations. But Berlin’s celebrated Artemis Quartet achieved one Wednesday from the Friends of Chamber Music crowd, a knowledgeable audience [...]

Thu Mar 04, 2010
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Yuja Wang strikes sparks at Kravis with Russian National Orchestra

The world-class Russian National Orchestra was the marquee attraction of the Regional Arts Series’ Wednesday matinee at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. But [...]

Thu Mar 04, 2010
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New World’s Chopin tribute undone by rough and unready playing

On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin’s birth, the New World Symphony paid tribute to the romantic poet of the piano with [...]

Mon Mar 01, 2010
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Soprano Kiehr and colleagues open Tropical Baroque Festival in style

The Miami Bach Society’s eleventh annual Tropical Baroque Music Festival commenced with a winning evening of vocal and instrumental scores from the Italian Baroque Saturday [...]

Sun Feb 28, 2010
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Inspired cast and creative staging put a new gloss on an old villain in Palm Beach Opera’s “Don Giovanni”

Palm Beach Opera’s effective new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni skips the usual approaches to a work encrusted with tradition.
The highly regarded young Italian director [...]

Sat Feb 27, 2010
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Bach to the future with Firebird’s delightful take on the Brandenburgs

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has offered infinite interpretive possibilities to performing artists. From the spectacular Hollywood sound of Leopold Stokowski’s orchestral transcriptions to [...]

Sat Feb 27, 2010
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With steep highs and lows, FGO’s tribute to Heuer reflects his quarter-century at the helm

Florida Grand Opera’s “Evening to Remember” gala honoring Robert Heuer’s twenty-five years as general director on Wednesday night at the Arsht Center mirrored Heuer’s tenure [...]

Fri Feb 26, 2010
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Ying Quartet offers depth and brilliance in rarities at Frost

The Ying Quartet jettisoned the originally announced scores by Schumann and Beethoven Tuesday night in favor of rare Haydn and late Mendelssohn string quartets. With [...]

Wed Feb 24, 2010
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Fine singing upstaged–again–by crude stage direction in FGO’s “Barber”

Performances of Rossini’s Barber of Seville rarely err on the side of subtlety, and such was the case with the Florida Grand Opera production that [...]

Sun Feb 21, 2010
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Sleeper’s “Xenia” receives worthy premiere alongside showpieces by Bartok and Rimsky

The University of Miami’s Frost Symphony Orchestra played to a capacity crowd Saturday evening at Gusman Concert Hall, presenting two sonic blockbusters and the premiere [...]

Sun Feb 21, 2010
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