Miami, June 12, 2018 – General Director and CEO Susan T. Danis is pleased to announce the appointment of Howard Bender as the newest member of the Florida Grand Opera (FGO) staff after a national search conducted by Arts Consulting Group.

Miami, May 22, 2018 – After an international search, Florida Grand Opera (FGO) has chosen the cast for the 2018/19 season of mainstage opera. One of the oldest performing arts organizations in Florida and the seventh oldest opera company in America, “FGO,” said General Director and CEO Susan T. Danis, “has programed the deepest and most complete range of the whole opera experience the company has yet offered.”

Miami, May 18, 2018 – National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018.

MIAMI — April 5, 2018 — As the first Spanish-language opera commissioned by a major U.S. opera company (Houston Grand Opera, 1996), Catán’s magical realist masterpiece Florencia en el Amazonas invites us to reflect deeply on the human condition—the joys and sorrows of life, our inextricable connection to the natural world and its forces, the mutability of existence, the yearning for redemption, and the hope for
transcendence. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

MIAMI — March 27, 2018 —Inspired by the writings of the great Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas is one of the most lyrical and melodious new operas of the past 30 years, embraced by critics and audiences everywhere. 

MIAMI — February 13, 2018 —Florida Grand Opera’s seventy-eighth consecutive season welcomes its audience with the deepest and most complete range of the whole opera experience the company has yet offered: from immortal masterpieces La bohème and The Marriage of Figaro to the connoisseur’s delight Werther, to the new and inspiring Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s Frida based on the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

MIAMI — January 24, 2018 —The Dance of the Seven Veils from Richard Strauss’ Salome is one of the most famous set-pieces in all of German opera: Salome, the willful and reckless Judean princess, yields to her stepfather Herod’s insistence that she perform her sexy, provocative dance.

MIAMI — January 8, 2018 —Last October, Florida Grand Opera and The Café at Books & Books launched a special dining-and-entertainment initiative programmed around FGO’s lineup of operas for 2017-18.

MIAMI — January 4, 2018 —Florida Grand Opera offers five excellent reasons to see its production of Richard Strauss's Salome, opening January 27, 2018 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts' Ziff Ballet Opera House.

MIAMI — December 20, 2017 — Florida Grand Opera has announced a major cast change for its production of Christoph WIllibald Gluck’s landmark opera Orfeo ed Euridice, opening March 17, 2018, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ Ziff Ballet Opera House.

MIAMI — November, 8, 2017 — Florida Grand Opera’s season opens with Donizetti’s bel-canto classic Lucia di Lammermoor, on Saturday, November 11, 2017, at 7 pm, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ Ziff Ballet Opera House.

MIAMI — December 13, 2017 — Very few works of art retain the power to shock and disturb that they showed on their opening night decades earlier. One of those is Richard Strauss’s 1905 opera Salome.

MIAMI — October 25, 2017 —On Friday, October 27, 2017, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Florida Grand Opera is celebrating National Opera Week with a special advance event that will be held as part of the 2017-18 SongFest Series at ArtServe Fort Lauderdale. National Opera Week is a national celebration of opera in America. Opera companies come together and empower individuals to take action in supporting the art form through wide array of events. This program is part of FGO’s series of popular SongFest concerts, spotlighting several of the company’s dynamic Studio Artists, in a program of works by the composers featured in the current season’s repertoire of operas: Donizetti, Richard Strauss, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Daniel Catán.

Soprano Anna Christy, one of the most in-demand lyric sopranos performing on the international scene today, opens Florida Grand Opera’s seventy-seventh season on Saturday, November 11, 2017, at 7:00 pm at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ Ziff Ballet Opera House in Miami, Florida.

Florida Grand Opera’s incoming group of Young Artists for 2017-18 will usher in the company’s seventy-seventh season with a special concert at FGO’s Doral Center on Saturday, October 14, 2017, at 8 p.m.

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