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Florida Grand Opera
Florida Grand Opera (FGO) is an American opera company based in Miami, Florida. It is the oldest performing arts organization in Florida and the seventh oldest opera company in the United States. FGO was created in 1994 from the consolidation of two opera companies in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region: Opera Guild of Greater Miami, founded in 1941 by Arturo di Filippi; and the Opera Guild, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, formed in 1945. Location FGO is the resident company at the Ziff Ballet Opera House, located in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, and also at the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. FGO sometimes stages at other area theaters, including Lauderhill Performing Arts Center in Broward County and the Miami Shrine Temple in Miami-Dade. History Founding and early years In 1941, the company was founded as the Opera Guild of Greater Miami by Arturo di Filippi, a tenor and voice teacher at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Grand Opera Presents The Pearl Fishers (16045213803)
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Rudolf Bing
Sir Rudolf Bing, KBE (January 9, 1902 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born British opera impresario who worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, including as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1950 to 1972. He was naturalized as a British subject in 1946 and was knighted in 1971, although he spent decades living in the United States, where he died. Life and career Early years Born Rudolf Franz Joseph Bing in Vienna, Austria-Hungary to a well-to-do Jewish family (his father was an industrialist). Bing was an apprentice to a bookseller at the prestigious Viennese shop of Gilhofer & Ranschburg before moving on to Hugo Heller, who also ran a theatrical and concert agency. He then studied music and art history at the University of Vienna. In 1927, he went to Berlin, Germany, and subsequently served as general manager of opera houses in that city and in Darmstadt. While in Berlin he married a Russian ballerina, Nina Schelemskay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist Attractions In Miami
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American Opera Companies
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Culture Of Miami
Miami is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta, and the ninth-largest in the United States. With a population of 442,241 as of the 2020 census, Miami is the second-most populous city in Florida, after Jacksonville. Miami has the third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and international trade. Miami's metropolitan area is by far the largest urban economy in Florida, with a 2017 gross domestic product of $344.9 billion. In a 2018 UBS study of 77 world cities, Miami was the third-richest city in the U.S. and the third-richest globally in purchasing power. Miami is a majority-minority city with a Hispanic and Latino population o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Founded in 1903, it is the fifth-largest newspaper in Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties. It once circulated throughout Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The ''Miami Herald'' has been awarded 24 Pulitzer Prizes. Overview The newspaper has been awarded 24 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists include Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts Jr., Pulitzer-winning reporter Mirta Ojito, humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists have included Fred Grimm and sportswriters Michelle Kaufman, the late Edwin Pope, Dan Le Batard, Bea Hines and Greg Cote. The ''Miami Herald'' participates in "Politifact Florida", a website that focuses on Florida issues, with the ''Tampa Bay Times''. The ''Herald'' and the ''Times'' share resources on news stories re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlon Daniel
Marlon Daniel is an American composer, conductor, and music director. He is known for being a specialist in the music of Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Daniel was the winner of the 2009 John and Mary Virginia Foncannon Conducting Award, and a prizewinner at the 2018 Bucharest Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Competition. Early life Born in Chicago, Illinois, his family is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, and he is of African American, French and American Indian descent (through maternal grandmother Ruth Chitwood). He received his formative education at St. Ita Grammar School and Lane Technical High School in Chicago. He also studied dance as scholarship student at Boitsov Classical Ballet School and was a member of Najwa Dance Corps. For a brief period he pursued acting as a child and appeared on ''Sesame Street''. He holds two silver medals in competitive jujitsu. Education Daniel's talent was first discovered at the age of seven by his fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ching
Michael Ching (born September 29, 1958)Cuyler, Antonio Christopher"The Career Paths of Non-European-American Executive Opera Administrators in the United States" Florida State University, 2007. pp. 59–64. is an American composer, conductor, and music administrator. A prolific and eclectic composer, he is best known nationally as the composer of innovative operas, including his ''a cappella'' adaptation of Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (2011).Waleson, Heidi"A Remarkably Inventive A Cappella Premiere" ''The Wall Street Journal''. January 25, 2011. His other major operas include ''Buoso's Ghost'' (1996), ''Corps of Discovery'' (2003), ''Slaying the Dragon'' (2012), ''Speed Dating Tonight!'' (2013), and ''Alice Ryley'' (2015). He has written the librettos of many of his own operas, and has done so for all of his operas composed after 2012. He is on the board of directors of the National Opera Association. Early life and education Michael Ching was born in 1958 in Hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Beach Daily News
The ''Palm Beach Daily News'' is a newspaper serving the town of Palm Beach in Palm Beach County in South Florida. It is also known as "The Shiny Sheet" because of its heavy, slick newsprint stock. History The newspaper was founded in 1897 as the ''Lake Worth Daily News'', and it covers the news and social affairs of the residents on the island of Palm Beach itself. Previously owned by Cox Enterprises, it has been a sister publication of '' The Palm Beach Post'' since 1948, when Florida newspaper owner John Perry, owner of ''The Post'', bought the ''Daily News'' as well. Cox acquired all of Perry's properties in the Palm Beaches in 1969. On October 31, 2017, Cox Media Group announced its plans to sell the ''Palm Beach Daily News'' and ''Palm Beach Post''. In 2018, it was announced that GateHouse Media would buy the newspapers for $49.25 million, with the deal closed in May. Virginia-based Gannett currently owns the newspaper. See also * List of newspapers in Florida Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Tebar
José Ramón Tebar Sáiz (November 6, 1978, Valencia, Spain) is a conductor and pianist, currently Principal Conductor at Florida Grand Opera. He is Artistic Director of Opera Naples. He was Music Director of the Festival of Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Na ..., Dominican Republic (2009-2015). In March 2015, he was named Principal Guest Conductor of Spain's Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. References External links BioPalm Beach Symphony Website Ramón TebarOfficial Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Tebar, Ramon 1978 births Musicians from Valencia Spanish male conductors (music) Music directors (opera) 20th-century Spanish conductors (music) 21st-century Spanish conductors (music) Spanish male classical pianists Order of Civil Merit members Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Robertson
Stewart Robertson (22 May 1948 – 12 February 2024) was a Scottish conductor who worked internationally, especially in the United States from the 1980s, also as a radio journalist and academic teacher. Life and career Stewart Robertson was born in Scotland on 22 May 1948.''International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009''. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2009), p. 693 () He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Bristol University. He studied piano in London with Denis Matthews, and conducting with Otmar Suitner at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Academy. Robertson became the youngest conductor to lead a performance at the Cologne Opera since Herbert von Karajan. He served as music director of the Zurich Ballet and Scottish Opera's touring company. He conducted New York City Opera productions broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center. In the early 1980's, he served as conductor of the San Jose Symphony Youth Orchestra. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
