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The Carnival Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Miami Performing Arts Center) will celebrate its highly anticipated Grand Opening with a four-day festival that will include star-studded performances, parties, a gala, and many community events. Information regarding event tickets will be forthcoming.
Thursday Night, October 5
Opening Ceremony A grand public opening ceremony and dedication of Carnival Center for the Performing Arts on the outdoor Plaza for the Arts on Biscayne Blvd between NE 13th St. and NE 14th St. at 6:00pm. Includes 12 percussion ensembles and fireworks. FREE
The Concert for Miami Inauguration of the Knight Concert Hall - A star-studded tribute to Miami by more than 150 performers, led by Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan, produced by Emilio Estefan and featuring Quincy Jones, José Carreras, actress Bernadette Peters, Alejandro Sanz, Andy Garcia, Arturo Sandoval, Cachao, Albita and Carlos Vives, among others. A limited number of tickets are on sale for the event in the Knight Concert Hall for $500. Tickets are also being sold to view a simulcast from across the street in the Ziff Ballet Opera House for $20. Please visit www.carnivalcenter.org or call (305) 949-6722 for more information.
Friday Night, October 6
Carnival Center resident companies Concert Association of Florida and New World Symphony join forces to present a program of classical and contemporary music in the Knight Concert Hall that will include the world premiere of an orchestral fanfare by Steven Mackey, especially commissioned for this occasion. NWS Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas conducts with guest artists presented by Judy Drucker’s Concert Association of Florida - Grammy Award-winning virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov and soprano Measha Brueggergosman, whom the San Francisco Chronicle described as “a singer of rare gifts and artistic intensity.” A limited number of tickets will go on sale soon. Please visit www.carnivalcenter.org for more information.
Saturday Night, October 7
Carnival Center resident companies Florida Grand Opera and Miami City Ballet welcome audiences to their new home with inaugural performances on the stage of the Ziff Ballet Opera House. FGO will present Act II of Puccini’s La Bohème, featuring the internationally acclaimed American soprano Patricia Racette as Musetta and conducted by FGO Music Director Stewart Robertson. MCB will present, for the first time in its 20-year history, Act III of Tchaikovsky’s spectacular fairy tale classic The Sleeping Beauty. A limited number of tickets will go on sale soon. Please visit www.carnivalcenter.org for more information.
This night will also feature a surprise performance that will shine the bright lights of Broadway throughout the new hall.
And a last minute addition to the festivities...The outdoor Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts will be transformed for one night only into Miami’s hippest Late Night Club 10pm - 3am. The Young Miamians and the Green Room Society (the Center’s new young professionals group) will join forces and guest lists for “Liquid” – an acoustic fantasyland of illumination, sights, and sounds featuring DJ Irie, the official DJ of the World Champions Miami Heat.
A 20-foot wall of water – a gift from Northwestern Mutual - in the will welcome hundreds of Miami’s hippest young arts supporters into the Peacock Foundation, Inc. Studio to dance the night away at the Late Night Club, which will take place from 10 p.m. – 3 a.m. Culinary creations for the evening, created by Restaurant Associates, include three gourmet stations - a mashed potato martini bar, sushi buffet, and a taqueria and masa cake station. Passed sweets will include neon Florida cookies, chocolate martinis, warm fudge brownies with milk, miniature coffee crème brûlée and flan, and raspberries sabayon. Fiji Water will provide water for all guests as well as a gift at the end of the night.
Tickets for the Late Night Club only are $75 per person and include light gourmet fare, complimentary cocktails, and a fabulous night during Carnival Center’s Grand Opening Weekend. A limited number of $125 tickets are available as well, which include a ticket to that evening’s Ballet! Opera! Broadway! performance at 8:00 p.m. as well as the Late Night Club. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (786) 468-2247.
Sunday, October 8
Target Globalbeat Carnival Center’s Grand Opening finale featuring FREE indoor and outdoor performances by hundreds of local artists representing 20 countries - including internationally acclaimed touring bands, Grammy nominees, traditional folk performers, and homegrown favorites -in the Center’s three indoor theaters, lobbies, plaza, and outdoor terraces. Six parades will run through the Center during the day, including the Bahamas Junkanoo Revue of Miami, The Samba Academy, a Chinese Dragon performance by the Miami Overseas Chinese Association, a traditional Haitian rara procession by Rara Lakay, brass band sounds from the high energy Miami Street Band, and the colossal annual Miami Carnival, which will bring hundreds of costumed Caribbean dancers and performers through the heart of downtown Miami for a special stop in the Center’s Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts, on Biscayne Boulevard between 13th and 14th streets.
Tickets:
1. No tickets required for outdoor performances.
2. For admittance to indoor performances, pick up vouchers at your Miami-Dade Commissioner’s Office beginning Monday, September 18. Call your local offices to make arrangements. Vouchers are redeemable for wristbands at the Target Globalbeat Tent on the event day.
3. Pick up wristbands at the Target Globalbeat Tent for any of three three-hour sessions (12pm, 3pm, 6pm) up to 2 hours prior on Sunday, October 8.
Visit www.carnivalcenter.org for additional information.
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