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As Florida Grand Opera opens its 72nd season, its new general director is already shaking things up

Susan Danis, Florida Grand Opera's new general director and CEO.
Susan Danis, Florida Grand Opera's new general director and CEO.
Carla Varisco-Williams / Photo by Carla Varisco-Williams

If you go

Florida Grand Opera opens its season at 7 p.m. Saturday with Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’ at the Arsht Center’s Ziff Opera Ballet House. Additional performances are Nov. 21, 24, 27 and 30 and Dec. 2, plus Dec. 6 and 8 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $19-$200 at fgo.org or 800-741-1010.


By Lawrence A. Johnson

South Florida Classical Review

The day after Susan Danis moved to Miami to take up the position of general director of Florida Grand Opera, she leaned forward at lunch and said, “I have to tell you that first financial meeting was the scariest one I’ve ever had in my life.”

To read in full: Southfloridaclassicalreview.com

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