Opera: It’s hard to imagine a more challenging subject than that of the Polish-Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 opera, The Passenger. Written for the Bolshoi but shelved, it was not performed until 2010, when it made its sensational debut at the Bregenz Festival in Austria. Tonight, Florida Grand Opera brings that David Pountney-directed production to the Ziff Ballet … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 11-13
From left: Nicholas Richberg, Anna Lise Jensen and Jeni Hacker in Passion. Theater: Miami’s Zoetic Stage is not known for producing musicals, but it was highly successful with Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, so it has now gone back to Broadway’s reigning composer-lyricist to serve up Passion, his 1994 Tony Award winner (albeit the one with the shortest run, roughly nine months). … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 23-24
Music: The Master Chorale of South Florida began life as the chorus for the Florida Philharmonic, providing massed vocal heft when it was time for the Beethoven Ninth Symphony or Belshazzar’s Feast. The orchestra dissolved 10 years ago, but the chorus has continued, and in that decade it’s had three different directors. Now it’s on its fourth, young Brett Karlin of Boca Raton, … [Read more...]