Conductor

Music Director

With humor and insight, Michael Francis takes you on a journey through a single work before a full performance. You’ll never listen to music the same way again.Pay what you can at the door, general admission.Sponsored by the Cassaly Foundation.

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Inside Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Duke Energy Center for the Arts

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Straz Center for the Performing Arts

Michael Francis leads a program connected by friendship. In Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, each movement aims to capture the essence of a friend he lost in World War I. Concertmaster Jeffrey Multer on violin and Principal Cello Yoni Draiblate team up for Brahms’ Double Concerto, composed as a peace offering to a longtime friend. It was Brahms’ final work. In Enigma Variations – including the emotional Nimrod movement — Elgar adapts an original tune into 14 musical caricatures of his friends.

With humor and insight, Michael Francis takes you on a journey through a single work before a full performance.
You’ll never listen to music the same way again.
Admission: Pay what you can at the door, general admission.

Inside Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

Michael Francis conducts a vast orchestra and huge choir for an epic live experience in the concert hall. One of Mahler’s most popular works, the symphony follows a narrative from death to life, beginning with a funeral march and building to a jaw-dropping, triumphant conclusion of redemption. Features The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay and four soloists.

Michael Francis

Conductor, Music Director

Events

May 16, 2024

Inside Elgar’s Enigma Variations · The Mahaffey Theater

17 - 19 May, 2024

Elgar’s Enigma Variations · Florida Orchestra

May 18, 2024

Elgar’s Enigma Variations · The Mahaffey Theater

May 23, 2024

Inside Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony · The Mahaffey Theater

May 25, 2024

Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony · The Mahaffey Theater

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