Florida Grand Opera Presents SONGFEST SOUTH FLORIDA, 12/2

Florida Grand Opera (FGO), the Josephine S. Leiser Center and Steinway and Sons Piano Gallery Miami are pleased to present the first installment of "Songfest South Florida" in Miami on Friday, December 2, 2016 at 7:30pm. This free concert features young artists Melissa Fajardo, Calvin Griffin and Benjamin Werley singing classical selections inspired by FGO's season opener, Carmen.

The Miami series is titled Visions of Spain, exploring the extensive art song catalogue Bizet and his contemporaries inspired by Spanish exoticism. The 75-minute program includes works by Georges Bizet, Maurice Ravel, Jacques Ibert, Robert Schumann and Pauline Viardot.

"This program has already experienced success at our first SongFest Broward concert in November," says Mitchell Roe, Young Artist Program Coordinator at Florida Grand Opera. "We are proud to be able to offer our Miami audience the same opportunity to see our young artists in a more intimate setting."

In hopes of attracting working professionals, the performance will be held on Friday at 7:30pm. Doors will open for all events at approximately 30 minutes prior to start for a pre-performance reception.