Tag Archives: Florida Grand Opera
You Can’t Stop The Beat: Well, At Least Online In So. Florida
Trivia contests, master classes, solo performances, new play development online, lectures, podcast-like schmoozing interviews, requests for video audition, 24-hour theater projects, even soliciting subscriptions for specific dates. The ghost light may be lit across the South Florida theater scene, but nearly every troupe is aggressively keeping the genre’s profile inescapable.
Music Not The Plot Is The Attraction in FGO’s Werther
Jules Massenet’s dramatic opera Werther is short on action, and its cast of characters limited. But it does have a reputation, however, of being the most French of French operas, and what has gained the 19th century work this reverence isn’t in its storytelling about the lovelorn poet and the woman he can’t have, but in the music.
FGO’s Vibrant Surreal Frida Is Not Your Everyday Grand Opera
Expectations: It’s crucial that regular patrons know that Frida is unlike almost any other work previously offered by Florida Grand Opera. The eclectic score, surreal staging, use of microphones and partial nudity shouldn’t deter anyone; just don’t go expecting Rigoletto.
Miami Soprano Cuervo Takes On Challenging Role Of Frida Kahlo
Miami-based, Colombian-born soprano Catalina Cuervo is best known for portraying Maria in Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires — more than 50 times. But since 2015, she has been forging a similar bond with iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s 1991 piece Frida which she will play this month for Florida Grand Opera
What FGO’s Figaro Lacks In Farce It Makes Up For In Gusto
Florida Grand Opera does daring works (we’re looking forward to the upcoming final two of the season, Frida and Werther), but, to satisfy audiences who prefer to see the familiar, there is company’s latest offering The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze de Figaro).
FGO’s Authentic La bohème; Results Are Perfect Puccini
Florida Grand Opera’s presentation of La bohème is authentically true to Puccini’s original right down to the pink bonnet. Besides an impressive visual production, this would still stand because of the incredible matchups of the performers.
New Plays At Dramaworks, Danis Stays At FGO, Space Now Wilton Theater Factory
News About Dramaworks’ January festival of readings of works in development, Susan Danis stays at Florida Grand Opera, Infinite Abyss and Island City Stage rename their home Wilton Theater Factory
News: Thinking Cap Beats Bway, Danis Leaves FGO, FIU Fosters Plays, Knight Offers Grants, Costume World Moving, Krasja Now BAA President
News of Florida Grand Opera, Florida International University, Knight Foundation, Broadway Across America and Costume World
FGO’s Gloriously Romantic Florencia en el Amazonas (Plus A Little Bit Of Magical Realism)
Even more unflinchingly romantic than those starving Bohemians in the garret or those Egyptians being buried alive, the unalloyed passion coursing through Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas in its first production at Florida Grand Opera is a pungent pleasure.