The celebration of the Leonard Bernstein centenary is bringing a lot of the composer-conductor’s music back into the public eye, and last weekend at Palm Beach Opera, the company tackled Candide for the second production of its current season. Like all troubled theater works, Candide has had several iterations since its relatively unsuccessful 1956 debut, with multiple … [Read more...]
Ebony Chorale, PB Opera’s Young Artists unite in electrifying crossover
By Dale King As genres go, opera and African-American spirituals can easily stand on their own. But what would happen if performers of both long-established styles were to join voices in a single, combined program? The Palm Beach Opera and The Ebony Chorale of the Palm Beaches put that supposition to the test Thursday night in an epic collaboration, a show called … [Read more...]