FGO Historic Timeline
SEASON 79 I 13
1994
Greater Miami
Opera and the
Opera Guild of
Fort Lauderdale
merge, forming
Florida Grand
Opera.
1996
Deborah Voigt
makes her
Florida Grand
Opera debut in
the title role of
Ariadne
auf Naxos.
2006
The Adrienne Arsht
Center for the
Performing Arts
of Miami-Dade
County opens,
thanks in part to
Robert Heuer’s
much-needed
state of the art
performance
venue in the
county.
2007
OPERA America returns
to Miami for its annual
conference and brings opera
leaders from around the world
to South Florida to see Florida
Grand Opera’s world premiere
of David Carlson’s Anna
Karenina.
2012
Susan T. Danis
is appointed
Florida Grand
Opera’s fourth
General
Director.
2013
The company is only the
fourth in the United States
to perform Marvin David
Levy’s Mourning Becomes
Electra as a part of Danis’s
for the company.
2014
The Say
Opera,
South
Florida
campaign
launches.
2016
Florida Grand
Opera is only
in the United
States and
seventh opera
company
in the world
to present
Weinberg’s
The
Passenger.
2016
Florida
Grand Opera
celebrates
its 75th
anniversary
and receives
the largest
gift in the
company’s
history,
its Doral
headquarters
housing the
company’s
administrative
rehearsal
space, worth
$7 million.
2017
Florida
Grand
Opera
premieres
Jorge
Martín’s
Before Night
Falls based
on the life
of exiled
Cuban poet
and novelist
Reinaldo
Arenas.
2018
GRAMMY®
Award Winner
Ana María
Martínez
makes her
role debut
as the title
character in
the company
premiere of
Daniel Catán’s
Florencia en
el Amazonas,
with a libretto
inspired by
the great
Gabriel
García
Márquez
(One
Hundred
Years of
Solitude).
2018
Florida Grand
Opera is
nominated
in the 2018
International
Opera
Awards for its
outstanding
achievements
of Education
and
Outreach.
2019
Florida Grand
Opera takes
Rodríguez’s
Frida on a
regional tour,
making house
debuts at
the Miramar
Cultural
Center
and Parker
Playhouse,
and returning
to the Miami-
Dade County
Auditorium for
in over
12 years.
2019-20
This season
features
four women
directors
all making
their debuts,
telling the
stories of this
year’s operas
from female
perspective.
Conductor,
Emily Senturia
is only the third
woman to take
the podium in
FGO’s 79 year
history.
2018
Countertenor
Anthony Roth
Costanzo
makes his
house debut
as Orfeo in
the company
premiere of
Christoph
Willibald
Gluck’s Orfeo
ed Euridice.
2014
Danis
establishes the
Made for Miami
series with
the mainstage
presentation
of Nabucco.
The series is
designed to
present one
mainstage opera
each season
that resonates
with the diverse
communities
and populations
of South Florida.
Additional
outreach and
Community
Conversation
events are
planned as part
of Made for
Miami.
2013
Danis launches the
Unexpected Opera in
Unexpected Places
series with a double-bill
of Xavier Rodriguez’s
Tango and Ástor
Piazzolla’s María de
Buenos Aires.