South Florida’s biggest arts institutions are changing hands, and the new leaders are thinking bigger, collaborating more and chasing new audiences, according to a September 20, 2026 Miami Herald report by Jane Wooldridge. If you want one image of this moment, picture the curtain going up on Miami City Ballet’s reimagined “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”…
DetailsThink You Can’t Sing? Florida Grand Opera Wants to Prove You Wrong There’s a particular kind of sting that comes from being told, often as a kid, that you can’t sing — that you’re tone-deaf, off-key, better off staying silent. Maria Todaro, CEO and General Director of Florida Grand Opera, has heard it all before,…
DetailsSome stages carry more weight than others. The Gran Teatro all’Aperto in Torre del Lago sits directly on the shore of Lake Massaciuccoli, a short walk from Villa Puccini, the house where Giacomo Puccini lived, composed, and is now buried. It is, quite literally, the place where Tosca and so many of his other masterworks…
DetailsThere’s a moment in a recent OperaWire feature on Florida Grand Opera that stops you mid-scroll: the observation that General Director María Todaro’s directorial debut at the Puccini Festival “carries a resonance that goes beyond artistic merit.” The trip to Torre del Lago wasn’t just a career milestone. It was described as a strengthening of…
DetailsEvery so often, the work of building an opera company happens far from the stage, in a rehearsal room, a boardroom, or in this case, an auditorium in San José, Costa Rica, listening for the next great voice of the Americas. This past August, Florida Grand Opera General Director and CEO María Todaro traveled to…
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