{"id":403474,"date":"2026-09-18T11:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403474\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:16:38","slug":"been-told-you-cant-carry-a-tune-then-florida-grand-operas-new-choir-is-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403474\/","title":{"rendered":"Been told you can’t carry a tune? Then Florida Grand Opera’s new choir is for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

You sound like a sick cat.<\/p>\n

You’re off-key.<\/p>\n

You couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.<\/p>\n

Don’t quit your day job.<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever heard any such nasty comments about your singing voice, Maria Todaro has an urgent message for you.<\/p>\n

“It’s not true that you can’t sing,” says Todaro, CEO and General Director of Florida Grand Opera. “If you can speak, you can sing.”<\/p>\n

And FGO now has a safe space where you can prove that to yourself \u2014 the company’s new Community Choir<\/a> in Miami. <\/p>\n

Florida Grand Opera is rolling it out as part of its 85th Anniversary season.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: “A hub of hope.” What Miami means to Florida Grand Opera’s General Director<\/a><\/p>\n

Todaro, who started her first choir at age 18 in her native France, says she has seen first-hand the transformative power of group singing.<\/p>\n

“It is a healer,” she says. “Singing together heals on a community level, on a social level, on an emotional level.”<\/p>\n

Todaro stresses that you don’t have to know a thing about opera to join the choir, as several music genres will be studied and sung.<\/p>\n

Registration is on-going, all ages are welcome, no audition is required, there is no set number of “spots” within the chorus and it’s free to join.<\/p>\n

Todaro says she hopes the new choir will attract what she calls her “favorite person” \u2014 someone who has been told from childhood that they can’t sing.<\/p>\n

“It’s devastating,” she says. “The voice is part of your personality. It’s part of your identity. And so, people that have been told this \u2014 there is a broken piece that needs to be restored in them.”<\/p>\n

So what should people expect once they sign up and show up at choir practice?<\/p>\n

“A lot of fun,” says Todaro. “And a lot of self-discovery.”<\/p>\n

Registration is now open to join Florida Grand Opera’s
Community Choir. Prospective members may write to mtodaro@fgo.org<\/a> to sign up or ask questions. Sessions take place on Thursdays, beginning Sept. 24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You sound like a sick cat. You’re off-key. You couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket. Don’t quit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-403474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}