For the first opera of its 2017-18 season, Palm Beach Opera handed its audience a gift. In mounting a box-office surety in Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, the company was doing its best to make sure it had a sizable audience for its first mainstage production of the year. And on the afternoon of Jan. 28, the Kravis Center house was gratifyingly huge. But in bringing this opera … [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...]