Robert Herman appoints Miamian conductor Willie Anthony Waters as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. Lawrence Budmen writes in the South Florida Classical Review, “Waters led an intense reading of Mozart’s opera seria Idomeneo, a sizzling Salome (Miami’s first Strauss opera), and a lyrical Die Walkure (with James Morris as Wotan).”

FGO Artistic Director 1986–1995 Willie Anthony Waters