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Palm Beach Opera Toasts To 2024 Gala Chairs

And Benefactors At Private Palm Beach Home

In an exciting overture to its upcoming 2024 Gala, Palm
Beach Opera (PBO) honored its Gala Chairs and Host
Committee with an intimate performance in the Palm Beach
home of Paulette Koch on Jan. 6.
Koch welcomed 65 guests and thanked her cochairs Judy
Harpel and Diane Sculley and the hardworking gala council
and host committee for their tireless efforts in creating what
will be a truly outstanding gala.
The Palm Beach Opera Gala at The Breakers Palm Beach
on Feb. 5 will showcase an exclusive recital by mezzo-
soprano Isabel Leonard, a three-time Grammy Award-
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winner who made her PBO debut as Musetta in La Bohème
in the company’s historic 2021 festival.
Guests enjoyed dinner, cocktails, and passed hors
d’oeuvres. PBO Chair of the Board of Directors David Genser Sanford and Isanne Fisher Robert and Julie Desnick Rebecca and Randell Doane Lee and Jeffrey Alderton
reminded guests that the opera’s largest annual fundraiser not
only supports the company’s world-class productions but
also its three-tiered artist training programs as well as the
numerous education and community engagement initiatives
provided at no cost across Palm Beach County.
General and Artistic Director David Walker recognized
the Gala Host Committee, Gala Council and Gala Chairs and
thanked the evening’s hosts Paulette Koch, Judy and Jerry
Kaufman and Joan and David Genser.
“From our transformative studio training program for
high school students and the Cornelia T. Bailey Apprentice

Dennis and Roseanne John and Diane Sculley Judy and Jerry Kaufman
Williams Joan and David Genser
Others attending the event included Lee and Jeffrey
Artist Program that creates Alderton, David Brodsky, Erika and David Brown, Julie
a bridge to a professional and Robert Desnick, Rebecca and Randell Doane, Judi
career for recent music Donoff, Susan and Paul Efron, Wendy and Elliott Eisen,
school graduates to our Isanne and Sanford Fisher, Ann and Robert Fromer, Joan
acclaimed Benenson Genser, Merrill and Charles Gottesman, Judy Harpel, Dana
Young Artists Program that and Robert Iommazzo, Judy and Jerry Kaufman, Diane and
receives applications from John Sculley, Jane and John Shalam and Roseanne and
emerging artists around the Dennis Williams.
David Walker and Paulette Char les and Merr ill world, your support of the For information on Palm Beach Opera’s 2024 Gala,
Koch Gottesman gala is a commitment to please contact Clarissa Stoney at cstoney@pbopera.org.
the future of Palm Beach Palm Beach Opera is dedicated to producing live opera
Opera,” Walker said. Ann and Robert Fromer at an international standard of excellence and to enriching
Walker then introduced the life of the communities it serves with a diverse
three of this season’s Benenson Young Artists: Maria offering of educational programs. Founded in 1961, the
Vasilevskaya, Devin Eatmon and Cloe SanAntonio. fully professional Palm Beach Opera presents main stage
Accompanied by pianist Shelby Rhoades, the talented performances at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
singers performed arias from Carmen, La Bohème, La in West Palm Beach and is a proud member of OPERA
Traviata, and the operetta Das Land des Lächelns to the America and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.
delight of the guests. Photos by Capehart Photography

DR. RYAN CHIZNER

HAS JOINED PALM
Judy Harpel, Paulette Koch, Diane Sculley
BEACH CARDIOLOGY

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P.B.C.C. is pleased to welcome Dr. Ryan Chizner. Dr. Chizner
completed fellowships in cardiology and interventional
cardiology for which he is board certified.
In addition he holds board certification in Internal Medicine,
Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology and Vascular
Interpretation.
Family owned & operated since 1988
He has a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the Honors
Program at the University of Florida. He went on to complete
dual degrees with a Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine and
Master of Public Health from Nova Southeastern University.
Previously, Dr. Chizner practiced Interventional Cardiology in
Central Florida and Georgia.
He is the Co-Author of a Bestselling textbook on Cardiac Drugs
for healthcare providers, which is now in its second edition.
He is thrilled to move closer to family in South Florida.

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