We are happy to present The Opera Atelier Spring 2023 Season of performances and activities.

With theaters open and enthusiastic audiences returning to theaters, The Opera Atelier is also experiencing a rebirth. We have been busy with operatic performances, recitals, workshops, and educational and outreach programs. Over twenty performances offer a veritable smorgasbord of the musical art. Please allow me to mention but a few. After the success of the opera "Miami Transfer" which received the support of the Florida Division of Arts and Culture, as well as an International Cultural Partnerships grant, and a Tourism Development Council grant from the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, other performances have taken place. The work, performed in Tenerife and Miami, received additional support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Spain, and Steinway Pianos. Other salient performances have included “The Valkyrie of the Piano”, and “Gottschalk and Friends”. Salon performances have reached the Coral Gables Museum, and the Sala Santa Cecilia (now fitted with a generous-sounding Mason & Hamlin grand, red curtains, lights, and romantic candelabra to boot). “A Night in Old Havana” delighted audiences; and a concert of zarzuela selections on Miami Beach, at the Miami-Dade Public Library, and at the Manuel Artime Theater, lent brilliance to the beginning of the season, while an exciting program will end it with a bang: "Spain, My Love" a Spanish-themed program of ballet, opera and zarzuela in collaboration with Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, and Voices of Miami, is sure to please. 

The series “No Room of Her Own”, named after Virginia Woolf’s transcendental essay “A Room of One’s Own", in turn, celebrates the extraordinary achievements of women despite prescribed roles, and societal pressures. The series is being presented in partnership with the Miami-Dade Public Library. Upcoming, “Máquinas del Recuerdo" with the internationally acclaimed soprano Sandra López, “A Piano All Her Own”, a recital of unjustly neglected works by women composers, "Rendezvous with Malibran", with the internationally acclaimed soprano Eglise Gutiérrez, "Tribute to Ida Haendel”, featuring the international laurate violinist Erzhan Kulibaev, and a reenactment of Virginia Woolf’s lecture of 1929.

This season, TOA has continued to strengthen its ties with the Little Havana Community through quality performances, as well as partnerships with community agencies, and local schools. A new series of free lunchtime and evening recitals at the  Sala Santa Cecilia, TOA’s intimate venue in the Manuel Artime Community Center, has been received enthusiastically by the surrounding community. TOA’s Great Opera Moments series has come to the Goodlet Theater in Hialeah and will continue later this season.

Educational milestones: the seventh edition of The Opera Atelier’s signature programs Opera Adventures, and  MOZ-Art, with "Bastien un Bastienne" and "Frau Haydn in Trouble" productions this year.  TOA celebrates the achievements of our talented students now attending Manhattan School of Music, New York University, and UM Frost School, while younger ones are attending New World School of the Arts, Miami Arts, Zelda Glazer, and other local performing and magnet schools.

We take this opportunity to thank the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Division of Arts and Culture, and the City of Coral Gables for their support of this season in which the artists, and the audience come together once more to inspire each other.

See you at the opera!

Daniel Daroca
Musical Director