Seraphic Fire’s “Vivaldi and the Soprano: Vocal Fireworks” more than delivered on its promise on opening night. The compact program’s three thrilling works from the high Baroque were skillfully rendered in a sweet but all-too-short hour of music.
Fela! boasts hit songs, thrilling dances and a riveting story. But this Broadway success, which runs through Sunday at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is also radically different from other musicals. The show, which opened Tuesday evening, brings us inside the seething, incandescent and precarious life of the Nigerian musical and political revolutionary Fela Anikulapo Kuti. That it succeeds in captivating American audiences with a world that would seem to be utterly foreign and disturbing to them is part of its achievement. Fela! does not lecture. But like the life of its subject, the show is celebratory and tragic in equal measure.
Amy Herzog’s observant play gets a funny, poignant production at GableStage.
American pianist Alan Gampel, who has spent most of his career in Europe, is not one of those performers who just walks on stage, sits silently at the piano and runs through a slice of repertoire.
Inspirational musical ‘Fela!’ chronicles the life of an extraordinary Nigerian
The New World Symphony presented a fascinating juxtaposition of three scores written in the 1930s Saturday night at the New World Center. In their own individual manner, each of the composers rejected the atonal dogma of the Second Viennese School in favor of traditional melodic and harmonic structures.
Betsy Graver and Cliff Burgess shine in a simple, fine production at the Theatre at Arts Garage.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 drew a nearly full house for Thursday night’s final season program of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami residency at the Arsht Center, but it was a striking song cycle by Peter Lieberson that proved the concert’s memorable event.
Thursday’s performance by the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia, the Spanish troupe that is this year’s offering for the Flamenco Festival Miami, showed all the strengths and the weaknesses of this annual event — now in its sixth year at the Adrienne Arsht Center.
Writer-actor Tom Dugan revisits the life’s work of ‘the Jewish James Bond.’
Peter London has been a revered and beloved dance teacher at the New World School of the Arts since its launch in 1987, and his devotion and success as a mentor were apparent in the Peter London Global Dance Company concert Sunday evening at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. His troupe consists of 13 impressive current or recent New World students, and three alums now with major New York companies returned as guest stars.
A cantankerous couple deals with life’s hard knocks in pre-revolutionary Cuba.
Some companies are encouraging the social-media savvy to use their cellphones — within limits, of course
The Spanish flamenco world seems permanently obsessed with the tension between maintaining its genre’s powerful traditions and adapting to modern culture. One of the latest efforts to reconcile the two comes to Miami this week, when Spain’s Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia brings Metafora to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts for the sixth annual Flamenco Festival Miami.
Leading actors give strong performances, but the opening leads us briefly astray.
The tenor called in sick, and the English translations above the stage vanished in Act 1, yet the show went on opening night for Miami Lyric Opera's Carmen.
Amid the Italian palazzo splendor of the Alhambra Ballroom at Coral Gables’ Biltmore Hotel, the Tropical Baroque Festival closed with a concert of Italian Baroque arias.
Judging only from the program, one would have expected the most conventional part of Lara St. John’s violin recital to be the opening work, César Franck’s well-known Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Six versatile performers deliver the work of the man who got Mame and Dolly singing.
Island City and Empire Stage join forces in a well-acted, complicated play by Annie Baker.
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