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

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