Florida Grand Opera closed its 78th season on May 11 with a beautifully sung, attractively presented mounting of Jules Massenet’s Werther, which many scholars of French opera consider to be the composer’s masterpiece. The opera, based on Goethe’s breakthrough novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, tells the story of a young poet who falls desperately in love with a woman he … [Read more...]
At FGO, Mack has makings of first-rate Carmen
By Robert Croan Miami-based Florida Grand Opera presents four operas each season, with five performances of each work in that city’s Arsht Center, alternating two casts in the leading roles. The company repeats some of its productions – this season, three of the four – in Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center with casts chosen from the Miami performances. In the case of … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 3-4
Theater: Frequent patrons of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre already know of the remarkable talents of Matt Loehr (three-time Carbonell Award winner for Crazy for You, The Music Man and Hello, Dolly!), but this physically comic song-and-dance man has never been better showcased than in Me and My Girl, the Maltz’s latest production knockout. This British musical from 1937 follows the … [Read more...]