Music

Lucie Arnaz is celebrating 50 plus years in show business on TV, in films, on Broadway, and as a recording artist and cabaret performer. She joins us as part of our Broadway Concert Series. Lucie received the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle, Theatre World, and Outer Critic's Circle Awards for They’re Playing our Song. Other Broadway way credits include Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Betty Buckley, legendary, multi-award-winning actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world, joins us as part of our Broadway Concert Series! She most recently headlined the National Tour of the new Broadway Production of Hello Dolly! Tony Award Winner for Cats. Tony Award Nominee for Triumph Of Love. Other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Carrie.

We are delighted to present the incredible Lillias White as part of our Broadway Concert Series. Lillias won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for The Life and received a Tony Award nomination for Fela!. Other Broadway credits include Cats, Carrie, Dreamgirls, Once On This Island, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and Chicago!

Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Lady Gaga each stole our hearts with A Star is Born. Now a trio of Broadway and NYC cabaret’s best voices join forces to celebrate the music from all three iconic film versions of A Star is Born featuring “The Man That Got Away,” “Shallow,” and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen.” The concert will also include solo hits and iconic songs that brought these three female superstars to their respective versions of this film. There will be a free master class associated with this event and one or more singers will be chosen from the class to perform in the concert.

Coming to Aventura as part of the Broadway Concert Series, Gavin Creel won the 2017 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Hello Dolly! starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. Tony Award Nominee for both Thoroughly Modern Millie and Hair. Other Broadway credits include La Cage Aux Folles, She Loves Me, Book Of Mormon , and Waitress.

The world’s first all-male Carole King tribute! The iconic singer-songwriter, Carole King, gets a brand-new sound from Carole’s Kings. With lush orchestrations from the same team as Broadway’s Beautiful and a cast of three incredibly talented New York stage veterans, Carole’s Kings is a dynamic act that is wowing worldwide audiences. Jam-packed with chart-topping sensations like: “The Locomotion,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Natural Woman,” and many more, Carole’s Kings mixes in lighthearted comedy and even a fun megamix of the most popular songs getting crowds on their feet with timeless tracks.

Experience the Latin rhythms of yesteryear and today in An Evening at the Copacabana: An American and Latin Extravaganza. Featuring a core of professional dancers, a dynamic Cuban vocalist, award-winning Latin Ballroom couples, Argentinian gauchos, and traditional Spanish Flamenco dancers, An Evening at the Copacabana showcases music from around the world including songs made famous by Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen Miranda, Desi Arnaz, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Perez Prado and other greats including Miami’s own Gloria Estefan, and the Spanish guitar styles of Carlos Santana.

Founded in 1997 by Baroque scholar and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is recognized as one of the premier ensembles devoted to period instrument performance. The Orchestra received wide critical acclaim for its concert and opera performances throughout North America, Europe, South America, Japan and Korea,Taiwan and China. The Orchestra has appeared in many more cities across the United States than any other Baroque orchestra in history. They also maintain the most frequent touring schedule to Asia. Committed to the rediscovery of 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces, under Mr. Marcon’s leadership VBO has given the modern-day premieres of Francesco Cavalli’s L’Orione, Vivaldi’s Atenaide, Andromeda liberata, Benedetto Marcello’s La morte d’Adone and Il trionfo della poesia e della musica, and Boccherini’s La Clementina. With Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Orchestra has staged Cimarosa’s L’Olimpiade, Handel’s Siroe, and Galuppi’s L’Olimpiade, and reprised Siroe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in its first full staging in the United States. The Orchestra has been seen worldwide through several television specials, including films by the BBC, ARTE, NTR (Netherlands), and NHK. They are the subject of three recent video recordings, and their performances were also featured on Swiss TV in the documentary film by Richard Dindo, Vivaldi in Venice.

A Mexican Italian Opera in concert In 1519 the historic encounter between the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma and the Spanish General Cortés took place. In 2019, exactly 500 years later, the tri-national project with a Mexican core component Antonio Vivaldi · Motezuma (1733) celebrates cultural and national collaboration with a tour of performances in Canada, the United States and Mexico. • International cast of singers from Mexico, Spain, USA and Canada • Ensemble Caprice, a leading baroque orchestra from Montreal, Canada • Artistic partners Bach Society of Minnesota and Seattle Early Music Guild (USA) • Concert version with theatrical elements, featuring actor Pedro Juan Fonseca This orchestra will also be participating in “Bach to School” and will have 100 Miami students participating on stage during the concert.

The final concert of Fantasy Theatre Factory’s Music@SRT series with Cortadito will be an extraordinary celebration indeed. South Florida’s premier Cuban son group was awarded “Best Latin Act” by the Miami New Times. To celebrate this recognition, Cortadito is honored to welcome a true legend to the stage: world-renowned violinist Federico Britos. A 2-time Grammy Award winner and recipient of the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, Britos is known as “the titan of the violin” for his impressive experience and knowledge of the instrument. Serving as leading chair, soloist, and ultimately concertmaster with some of the great symphony orchestras of his native Uruguay, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba, and United States, Federico has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe. He has performed and recorded with some of Latin America’s most celebrated musicians, such as Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Salgan, Bola de Nieve, Cachao, João Gilberto, Dorival Caymmi, Vinicius de Moraes, Armando Manzanero, and Tania Libertad. He has also shared his outstanding talent with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Charlie Haden, Eddie Higgins, and Charlie Byrd.