Coral Gables

Carousel is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, it was Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s personal favorite of all their musicals and it was dubbed “the best musical of the 20th Century” by Time Magazine. This poignant and heartbreaking story presents a faithful Julie and her brutish husband Billy, is considered one of the most powerful books in musical theatre history with memorable … +

A moving group portrait of particular people in a particular place (Santa Barbara) at a particular moment in the 20th century (1979), one lovingly attended detail at a time. The great Annette Bening, in one of her very best performances, is Dorothea, a single mother raising her son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), in a sprawling bohemian house, which is shared by an … +

The exhibition “Culinary Adventures: Bronze Sculpture and Paintings by Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz,” brings two well known partners in international art circles; both have exhibited widely in leading galleries and museums, Montoya since 1972 and Ortiz since 1996. Partners since 1994, Montoya and Ortiz are the extremely rare bronze sculptors who handle every phase of their work, from design to casting … +

University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and presenting sponsor UHealth, announce the spectacular lineup of the 33rd annual Festival Miami! From January 19 to February 11th, 2017 the festival will offer unique concert programs performed by Grammy Award-winners, Broadway performers, chart topping DJs, and acclaimed musicians, in the intimate UM Maurice Gusman Concert hall on the Coral Gables campus. Each year, … +

The 7th edition of this annual UM student-curated exhibition highlights 30 compelling photographs from the Museum’s permanent collection. Blasted Allegories considers the way photography resists decisive conclusions. Serendipitous details, unexpected gestures, and strange parallels occur across the photographs featured. Works by Garry Winogrand, Gregory Crewdson, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Nan Goldin, Weegee, and others come together as suggestive examples of how photography … +

From The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, this exhibition includes works by many of Cuba’s foremost women artists. Spanning from the 1960s to the present, the works represent a wide range of media and genres. It features artists like Antonia Eiriz, Sandra Ceballos, Cirenaica Moreira, Aimée García, Belkis Ayón, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rocío García and Sandra Ramos. They equally remind us of … +

Artist Sean Cavanaugh revels in the mundane. Specifically, trees—which for so many of us are merely background noise— are a source of endless fasciation for the artist. Through his meticulously detailed work, Cavanaugh explores richly textured tapestries of bark, lichens, and fungus, each different but all embodying a universe unto themselves. He does so through subtle watercolors, which, while naturalistic, never lose … +

Manchester by the Sea is Kenneth Lonergan’s masterpiece about a New England handyman (Casey Affleck) dealing with the death of his brother, the unexpected guardianship of his nephew and a guilt-ridden past that won’t let him go. With Manchester, selected by the National Board of Review as Best Film of the Year, Lonergan leaves the rank of gifted-playwright-turned-indie filmmaker to become a … +

Mathematics, science, and machines are the original sources in the imaginary world of Mexican artist Manuel Felguérez. The artist is a devoted reader of science fiction, a tendency that has influenced the poetics and themes of his work. To express the issue as such from the outset will facilitate the undertaking of examining his sculptures and his latest paintings. Felguérez career has … +

Three world premiere carol settings by Susan LaBarr and James K. Bass as associate conductor. Currently in their 15th Season Seraphic Fire sing timeless carols in the absorbing experience of Seraphic Fire’s traditional candlelight Christmas concerts. Performing throughout South Florida and on national tours, Seraphic Fire is regarded as one of the preeminent professional vocal ensembles in the United States. Led by … +

Award-winning jazz vocalist, Zoë began her musical career at an early age, growing through dedication and practice. Currently attending the University of Miami Frost School of Music on a full scholarship, Zoë continues to perform around Florida while finding time to teach voice and piano. Zoë has played in Austin, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Boca Raton, where she opened for Natalie Cole. … +

Frost Opera Theater students with Alan Johnson as director present the operas Scenes in Concert and Dido and Aeneas. Scenes in Concert includes classical and Bel Canto repertoire revealing the influences that will herald Frost Opera Theatre’s spring production of Stravinsky’s neoclassical opera The Rake’s Progress. In the other hand Dido and Aeneas -Henry Purcell’s extraordinary opera dating from 1680s- is a … +

Seraphic Fire, in concert with GRAMMY Award-winning organist Nathan Laube, performs a program of remembrance featuring the world premiere work, The Fate of His Ashes: A Requiem for Victims of Power, by Douglas Cuomo and the requiem masses of Fauré and Duruflé. From the delicate melody of Pie Jesu in Fauré’s Requiem to the unmistakable Gregorian chant in Duruflé’s Agnus Dei, this … +

Robert Carnochan leads the Frost Wind Ensemble on a musical celebration 90 years in the making. The world-renowned German Donaueschingen Music Festival takes center stage and features popular works from the wind band repertoire. A travel back in time to witness the programming of some of the greatest gems from legendary composers, including Hans Gál, Ernst Toch, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Pepping, and … +

With the scholarship help from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, a group of four outstanding young string musicians (violin, violin, viola, cello) take the stage by storm, performing with Ross Harbaugh as director. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.284.2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

Soprano Michelle Bradley, from the Metropolitan Opera has performed such roles as Mozart’s Fiordilligi and Donna Anna, Strauss’ Marschellin, and Verdi’s Alice from Falstaff. Included in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-2017 season, she was the 2014 grand prize winner of The Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition and completed a nationwide recital tour in May 2015. On the other hand, … +

Million Dollar Quartet is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the famous photo and phenomenal true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time in their careers. On December 4, 1956, these four young musicians were gathered together by Sam … +

Clara (Sonia Braga, Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands), a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its age and character that remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife neighborhood. Now that the other apartments have been swept up by a company with ambitious plans for redevelopment, pressures to move … +

Bach’s B minor mass takes listeners on a journey they will never forget, considered as infectiously joyous and hailed as “a cathedral of sound,” this masterpiece is widely considered one of the best choral works ever written. In this occasion the Master Chorale of South Florida gets together with the Symphonia of Boca Raton and world-class soloists. Dates, Times and Venues November … +

The Frost Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers join together for a chortal concert. Special guest group BisCaydence will join in to add some collegiate a cappella style to this event featuring music from Bach to Rock with Karen Kennedy as director. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. In this occasion, … +