Bruno Aprea leads the Verdi Requiem on Sunday. By Greg StepanichEven if you hear it by playing a YouTube video through the tinny speakers built into your laptop, Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem makes an overwhelming impression.So much more overwhelming was it, then, to see the massive chorus and orchestra lined up on stage Sunday afternoon at the Kravis Center … [Read more...]
Opera review: ‘Otello’ decent but spotty at PB Opera
Soprano Sabina Cvilak.By Greg StepanichFor its first staged production of the season, the Palm Beach Opera on Friday presented a decent, if unremarkable, production of what is often considered Giuseppe Verdi's finest opera.Otello, which for the composer marked a bold advance toward a seamless fusion of music and drama, requires a kind of singing and acting that it only got … [Read more...]