Florida Grand Opera (FGO) is pleased to welcome the singers who will make up the company’s 2017-18 Young Artist Program. Twelve performers in all, chosen from the nearly 550 who applied, will arrive in early October to become an integral part of the seventy-seventh season of Florida Grand Opera, the state’s longest continuously running performing arts institution.

Lenore Rosenberg, associate artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the opera world’s foremost authorities on casting, will offer her professional insights and thoughts on career strategy at a masterclass on Florida Grand Opera’s SongFest Masters Series on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. The class will take place at Steinway Piano Gallery Miami, 4101 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Coral Gables, Florida, at 7:30 pm.

An exhibit of acrylic paintings by Haitian artist Tracy Guiteau will be on view at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County throughout the run of Florida Grand Opera’s production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball). Both the opera and the exhibition run from April 29th through May 6th.

Lenore Rosenberg, the highly regarded associate artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera, will appear in a public masterclass on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 7:30 pm, at Steinway Piano Gallery in Coral Gables, Florida. Rosenberg’s masterclass, presented by Florida Grand Opera and the Steinway Piano Gallery Miami, marks the final installment of FGO’s SongFest Masters Series for the 2016-17 season.

As a special Mother’s Day gift to its community, Florida Grand Opera (FGO) presents a special “Family Day” celebration on May 14, 2017 at Pompano Beach Cultural Arts Center. The free event runs from 1 pm to 4 pm.

A tortuous love triangle involving the King of Sweden. A mysterious fortune teller who predicts that the King will soon die. An assassination plot. Few of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas contain as many bewitching elements as his 1859 masterpiece Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), which opens at Florida Grand Opera on April 29, 2017, in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County’s Ziff Ballet Opera House.

There’s an additional visual treat in store for those who attend Before Night Falls. At each performance of the opera—from March 18th to the 25th—the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, in collaboration with Florida Grand Opera, hosts an exhibition of the renowned Cuban painter Humberto Benitez.

Puerto Rican tenor Rafael Davila will assume the role of Gustavo in Florida Grand Opera’s production of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, opening April 29 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County’s Ziff Ballet Opera House.

Florida Grand Opera’s Songfest of South Florida recital series presents “Sounds of the Americas,” a wide-ranging selection vocal works by Latino composers. “Sounds of the Americas” will be heard twice this coming weekend: at Steinway Piano Gallery Miami in Coral Gables on Saturday, March 4, at 7:30 pm and at the Leiser Center in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, March 5 at 6:00 pm.

Josephine S. Leiser Opera Center and Steinway Piano Gallery Miami present the season’s third pair of concerts in the free concert series, “SongFest South Florida.” The program will be presented at Steinway Piano Gallery Miami in Coral Gables on Saturday, March 4, at 7:30 pm and at the Leiser Center in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, March 5 at 6:00 pm.

“The master class is not about me. It’s about making the singers look better and understanding what it is they are singing.”

Masterclass to be held at Steinway Piano Gallery Miami in Coral Gables at 7:30pm

PRODUCTION RUNS THROUGH FEBRUARY 11

The gala will include a cocktail reception and dinner followed by a performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and then dessert and dancing.

Florida Grand Opera (FGO) and Steinway & Sons Piano Gallery Miami are pleased to welcome internationally-celebrated mezzo soprano Denyce Graves on Thursday, January 5, 2017 in a one-night- only masterclass held at Steinway & Sons Piano Gallery in Coral Gables.

International Star Daniela Mack joins Florida Grand Opera’s cast of Georges Bizet’s Carmen for Broward performances

Katherine Kozak, Howard Lubin, Paul Schwartz and Paul Kovacovic as new additions to Young Artist Program artistic personnel.

Well-respected artistic leadership coming to FGO Young Artist Program for 2017-18 season.

Office building and rehearsal space donated to Florida Grand Opera worth $6.8 million.

Cadenza program brings arts intervention to victims of childhood sex trafficking.

2016-2017 75th Anniversary Gala Details included

New Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Executive Assistant to the General Director and CEO, and Investor Services Officer brought in to the company.

Post-YALA Summer Camp Round Up

Carmen Children's Chorus Audition September 7 & 8, 2016

Returning FGO Artist Steps into the Role of Oroveso

Florida Grand Opera to produce the most requested opera of the past two decades, Bellini’s Norma.

Florida Grand Opera’s Crescendo Circle hosts free cocktail mixer to attract members for the 2015-16 Season.

Florida Grand Opera to produce Vancouver Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville.

Florida Grand Opera and Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science partner to fund Fredrick Kaufman’s composition Stars and Distances

Florida Grand Opera y la Ciudad de Hialeah presentarán un concierto para los residentes de Hialeah en el Milander Center.

Opera welcomes soprano Rebekah Diaz-Fandrei and baritone Graham Fandrei as the newest members of its staff