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By Rex Hearn villain. David Stern conducts. Greg Ritchey is chorus so necessary to make the plot compulsive. This may have
Just three visiting master. David Gately directs. Call the box office for more been due to Omer Ben Seadia’s direction, everything
orchestras are left in Kravis information at (561) 833-7888. seemed subdued from beginning to end, especially the
Center’s Classical Music Palm Beach Symphony firing squad soldiers and the guards on the battlements of
Series formally known as Now first-class under the leadership of conductor Gerard Castel Gandolfo in Act lll. They slouched limpidly, as if
the Regional Arts Concerts, Schwarz, two concerts remain this season in the Kravis bored out of their minds. Nothing was spirited or military
once so ably led by the late Center: Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. and Thursday, April 25 about them. The touch of comedy in this dramatic work,
Sharon McDaniel. You can at 7:30 p.m. The first concert is a World Premiere composition libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa is provided
look forward to hearing the by Aaron Kernis followed by Emanuel Ax in Mozart’s Piano by the Sacristan of the church of Sant Andrea della Valle,
Rotterdam Philharmonic Concerto No 25 in C Major.K.503. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony the wonderful Adelmo Guidarelli. His hand and body
from Holland, the Vienna No. 4 ends this concert. The last April 25th date begins with gestures spoke volumes! The roles of Angelotti, Spoletta,
Philharmonic from Austria Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Ignat Solzhenitsyn at Sciarrone, The Jailer and Shepherd were from Palm Beach
and England’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. the keyboard and the massed choirs of Miami’s Frost School Opera’s excellent resident and studio artists, respectively:
Kravis Center of Music in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, his last, No 9. Edward Thomas Bland, Devin Eatmon, David Wolfe, Jacob
On Monday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., the 100-year-old (Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125). Solzhenitsyn is indeed O’Shea and Maya Brown, all of whom gave accomplished
Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Lahav Shani will the son of Nobel Laureate, the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, performances. Lighting designer, Joe Beumer, has yet to
play Arvo Pärt’s Swansong; Mozart’s Piano Concerto Soviet-era dissident. Soloists in the Choral Symphony are: learn that one can have dark backgrounds and still succeed
No. 9, in E flat Major, K.271; and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Hayley Lipke, soprano; Robynne Redman, mezzo; Joseph in showing the faces of characters as they sing their parts.
Juliet ballet music. The brilliant Daniil Trifonov plays the McBrayer, tenor; and Keith Klein, bass. Gerard Schwarz, He does the artists a disservice. And the audience too. Alas,
Mozart concerto. Next, on Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. conducts both concerts. The Palm Beach Symphony is now a minority, rush for the exits to get to their cars, ignoring
and Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m., the Vienna Philharmonic in its 50th year. Call the box office for additional information, respect due to the artists who give so much. Improvements
led by guest conductor, Franz Welser-Möst plays Berg’s (561) 281-0145. made some time ago make for swifter departures now
Three Pieces for Orchestra; Mahler’s 9th Symphony and from parking garages, over times past. The next opera,
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. Founded in 1842 Palm Beach Opera’s Tosca The Tales of Hoffman is from March 1 to 3, with the great
the Vienna Phil is the oldest professional orchestra in the Mark Delavan. Call the box office for more information,
world. Lastly, on March 18 at 7:30 p.m., the Academy of This performance of Puccini’s Tosca was a feast for (561) 833-7888.
St. Martin in the Fields led from the first violin chair by the eyes, brilliant scenery, perfect period costumes and
the great Joshua Bell will thrill you with their vitality and a thrilling church scene thronged with bishops, clergy,
his solo violin playing; program to be announced. Call choristers and communicants in Act l.
the box office for more information at (561) 832-7469. Greg Ritchey’s chorus singers were excellent but the
Palm Beach Opera orchestra sounded muted; none of Puccini’s orchestral
From March 1 to 3 at the Kravis Center you will hear brilliance came through to where I was sitting. Standout of
the best singers around in Offenbach’s wonderful The the Jan. 28 matinee was soprano, Anastasia Bartoli, from
Tales of Hoffman. These are four fun stories in which the Florence, Italy, making three debuts as the opera singer
lead male never gets the girl! On Friday, March 1 at 7:30 Floria Tosca: her USA and Palm Beach Opera debut, and
p.m. and Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m., tenor Kang Wang amazingly, for a soprano of such high caliber, her first
sings Hoffman in his debut; soprano Brandie Sutton sings Puccini leading lady role! Bartoli was superb. A Callas
the four heroines and baritone Zachary Nelson sings the in the making at her Lisbon Traviata best. Tenor Mario
four villains. On Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. tenor Chang’s opening aria, Recondita armonia disappointed as
Dominick Chenes is Hoffman. did most of his performance, he excelled however in the
Soprano Erika Baikoff is the heroine and the great last duet with Bartoli of Act lll. Baron Scarpia, sung by
Mark Delavan, who was Wotan in The Met’s last Wagner bass-baritone Greer Grimsley did not have the threatening
Ring Cycle, lends his rich baritone to the role of the presence to scare the daylights out of cast and audience,

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