Music: Dean Peterson, a fine operatic bass with world-class credits (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, etc.) whose work is familiar to South Florida audiences — most recently as Bluebeard in Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle for his new Opera Fusion company — is the subject of a fundraiser this Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 19-21
Music: Dave Matthews is one of those fortunate pop stars with a fan base that is essentially an extended family. Tonight he returns with his band to the Cruzan Amphitheatre for two nights of concerts in which the Dave Matthews Nation will surely be in force. At the end of this year he returns to his native South Africa for a series of concerts that are selling out, and which … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 13-15
Theater: Since the vacuum created by the demise of Florida Stage, the Caldwell Theatre has become the place to go for cutting edge theater in Palm Beach County. Artistic director Clive Cholerton has shaken the cobwebs off this Boca Raton playhouse while still bringing its audience locally produced versions of plays acclaimed in New York. But who else would bring area … [Read more...]