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  South Florida Arts Scene

  ‘Lear’ re-imagined in GableStage reading

  Playwright Richard Janaro, retired from many years of teaching at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, has re-imagined King Lear as the story of a homeless CEO who has a thing or two to learn in his play Evicted. The script will get a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday at GableStage in the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables.
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  City Theatre pulls out its ‘Shorts’

  Six actors, four directors and a dozen plays make up the festival’s 18th edition.

• MUSIC

  Youth orchestra holding tryouts Saturday for all South Florida musicians

  About 65 young musicians will be selected to join the orchestra for the 26th annual season.
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  Wynwood

  Art group transplants Tennessee Williams classic to 1960 Cuba

  La noche i.delicatissima is an avant garde reinterpretation of the Tennessee Williams classic The Night of the Iguana.
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  Classical music review

  Pianist, Sona Quartet spark fiery Brahms at Mozart Festival

  The Sona String Quartet’s excellent performances of Mozart and Benjamin Britten for the Mainly Mozart Festival formed a prelude to Saturday’s real event —a sizzling account of Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor featuring Marina Radiushina.
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  Children’s performance

  Children thrive onstage at MAD Dance Miami in Little Haiti

  MAD Dance director passes on her love for the stage to kids
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  Dance Review

  Cuban defectors show promise in debut at Fillmore Miami Beach

  The six Cuban dancers who defected from the National Ballet of Cuba in April made their U.S. debut as independent artists Saturday night at the Fillmore Miami Beach, in a showcase produced by the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. What these young dancers want, of course, is not to remain free agents, but to get jobs with ballet troupes here.

• Florida Grand Opera delays ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ replaces with ‘Thaïs’

  Florida Grand Opera has postponed Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde for a season and will be performing Massanet’s Thaïs in its place for the 2013-2014 season.
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  Classical music review

  Gekic provides Miami Piano Festival highlight with passion and poetry

  Kemal Gekic made his South Florida debut at the Miami International Piano Festival in 1999, and in the intervening years has become a familiar presence on the local concert scene. His Sunday afternoon recital on the concluding day of this year’s festival, however, was one of his most impressive solo performances to date.
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  Japanese sisters take gold in Dranoff 2-piano finals

  Japanese sisters Ayaka and Yuka Yamamoto, who have been performing together for four years as Duo Yamamoto, won the gold medal and $25,000 top prize Thursday night at the 12th Dranoff International 2 Piano Competition in Coral Gables. The pair triumphed with their interpretation of Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor.
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  Classical music review

  Young Russian opens piano fest with tasteful, searching performance

  Twenty-year old Russian pianist Nikolay Khozyainov demonstrated substance over style in the opening concert of the Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery series, delivering a compelling evening of masterworks that revealed a young artist more concerned with music than notes.
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  Classical Music Review

  Young Russian baritone displays world-class artistry

  Russian baritone Alexey Lavrov offered a generous sampling of Russian and Italian opera arias and songs by German, French, Russian and Italian composers in a terrific recital that closed the Friends of Chamber Music season Wednesday night.
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  Dance review

  Goblen digs deep, flies high in ‘Pet’

  Falling in love means taking a risk, and Rudi Goblen takes plenty of risks in his new solo theater piece, PET.
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  Classical music review

  Quartet opens Mainly Mozart Festival with Hungarian rarity

  At the opening concert of the Mainly Mozart Festival, the most interesting work was not by Mozart. It was by the Hungarian composer Ernõ Dohnányi, whose long life took him from the rich musical world of late 19th century Budapest to a grave in Tallahassee, where he died in 1960 after several years at Florida State University. Although Dohnányi’s reputation has faded somewhat, his works are still played, and on Sunday the Amernet String Quartet gave an intense, committed performance of his String Quartet No. 2.
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  South Florida Arts Scene

  Choreographer Octavio Campos gets a boost from Baryshnikov

  Miami choreographer, performer, producer and teacher Octavio Campos, who has mentored countless South Florida artists, begins a two-week residency on Monday at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Legendary founder Mikhail Baryshnikov was so struck by Campos’ performances with the Rosie Herrera Dance Theater that he invited Campos to start creating a work at BAC.

• Knight Foundation

  Knight Foundation picks 66 Arts Challenge finalists

  The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on Monday announced 66 finalists for its Knight Arts Challenge, which has pumped $86 million into South Florida’s creative community since 2006.
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  Theater Review

  Actors’ Playhouse finds farce on the links in ‘The Fox on the Fairway’

  Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre couldn’t be better situated to stage Ken Ludwig’s country club farce, The Fox on the Fairway.
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  Classical music

  Fast-rising young Russian phenom to open Miami Piano Festival series

  The Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery Series has a knack for bringing distinctive, relatively unknown talent to town. Impresaria Giselle Brodsky scours submissions, competitions and the Internet to find performers she considers special, often with unique interpretations in their repertoire.
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  Classical music review

  Seraphic Fire wraps season with delightful request night

  Seraphic Fire has an unusual, appealing twist wrapping up its 11th season. Each “Cathedral Classics” ticket holder received an email allowing them to vote for their favorite choral works from a list of more than 30 pieces. The resulting season-closing program is a reservoir of 20 possible works, with the final lineup chosen by artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley and the ensemble before each concert.
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  Theater Review

  ‘Memphis’ isn’t deep but its vocalists soar

  This musical’s plot will leave you longing for substance, but the story is entertaining and showcases some amazing singing.

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