The finale of Don Pasquale, at Florida Grand Opera. (Photo by Lorne Grandison) Two of this area’s opera companies bookended the season with Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, with the Palm Beach Opera doing a 17th-century take on the early 19th-century setting in which this 1842 opera was initially set. The production of Don Pasquale now showing at Florida Grand Opera in … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2016
FGO’s ‘Pasquale’ zany fun, but concept crowds out story
The finale of Don Pasquale, at Florida Grand Opera. (Photo by Lorne Grandison) Two of this area’s opera companies bookended the season with Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, with the Palm Beach Opera doing a 17th-century take on the early 19th-century setting in which this 1842 opera was initially set. The production of Don Pasquale now showing at Florida Grand Opera in … [Read more...]
Art in West Palm: A new gallery, and the public art of Los Trompos
Rolando Chang Barrero at his new art space on Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. By Sandra Schulman A new multimedia gallery space and a wildly imaginative and interactive installation will rev up the summer arts in West Palm Beach. The Box Gallery: Rolando Chang Barrero, who has a gallery in Lake Worth — Rolando Chang Barerro Fine Arts — and runs a gallery/studio at the … [Read more...]
Fine lead performances lift ‘Same Time, Next Year’ at Broward Stage Door
Jacqueline Laggy and Matthew Korinko star in Same Time, Next Year. (Photo by George Wentzler) By Dale King Same Time, Next Year is an engaging play with a fairly basic plot. Still, it is filled with intrigue that runs the gamut from humor to tragedy and guilt to glorious lessons learned. And while a number of people are mentioned in this play, Same Time, Next Year is still … [Read more...]
Fine lead performances lift ‘Same Time, Next Year’ at Broward Stage Door
Jacqueline Laggy and Matthew Korinko star in Same Time, Next Year. (Photo by George Wentzler) By Dale King Same Time, Next Year is an engaging play with a fairly basic plot. Still, it is filled with intrigue that runs the gamut from humor to tragedy and guilt to glorious lessons learned. And while a number of people are mentioned in this play, Same Time, Next Year is … [Read more...]
Art in West Palm: A new gallery, and the public art of Los Trompos
Rolando Chang Barrero at his new art space on Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. By Sandra Schulman A new multi-dia gallery space and a wildly imaginative and interactive installation will rev up the summer arts in West Palm Beach. The Box Gallery: Rolando Chang Barrero, who has a gallery in Lake Worth — Rolando Chang Barerro Fine Arts — and runs a gallery/studio at … [Read more...]
Director McGrath found ‘Beautiful’ experience in shepherding King musical
Abby Mueller in Beautiful. Douglas McGrath, film director (Emma, Infamous), screenwriter (Bullets Over Broadway, Nicholas Nickleby) and occasional actor (The Insider, Small Time Crooks), was skeptical when first approached about writing Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. But then so was singer-songwriter King. “I didn’t want to do it,” he says bluntly, sitting on the couch … [Read more...]
Strong choral work, fine soloists make Master Chorale’s Haydn one to remember
Horatio, Lord Nelson (1758-1805), by Lemuel Abbott. The Master Chorale of South Florida closed its current season with a remarkably energetic and gritty Haydn mass that said positive things about the chorus and augured good things for its future. Joined by a chamber orchestra from the Lynn Philharmonia in its concert May 1 at Lynn’s Wold Center for the Performing Arts, the … [Read more...]
Director McGrath found ‘Beautiful’ experience in shepherding King musical
Abby Mueller in Beautiful. Douglas McGrath, film director (Emma, Infamous), screenwriter (Bullets Over Broadway, Nicholas Nickleby) and occasional actor (The Insider, Small Time Crooks), was skeptical when first approached about writingBeautiful: The Carole King Musical. But then so was singer-songwriter King. “I didn’t want to do it,” he says bluntly, sitting on the … [Read more...]
Strong choral work, fine soloists make Master Chorale’s Haydn one to remember
Horatio, Lord Nelson (1758-1805), by Lemuel Abbott. The Master Chorale of South Florida closed its current season with a remarkably energetic and gritty Haydn mass that said positive things about the chorus and augured good things for its future. Joined by a chamber orchestra from the Lynn Philharmonia in its concert May 1 at Lynn’s Wold Center for the Performing Arts, … [Read more...]