The Mainly Mozart Festival closed its 22nd season Sunday afternoon with a remarkably ambitious presentation that combined a medieval classic of world literature with a large work of Romanticism, and along the way featured a children’s chorus and a brand-new ballet. For sheer guts and imagination, the festival’s mounting of Franz Liszt’s Dante Symphony in a two-piano … [Read more...]
Handsome, well-sung ‘Lucia’ ends PBO’s 50th on solid note
With its final production of the season, Palm Beach Opera showcases a number of fine voices in a handsome, traditional presentation that drags somewhat but ultimately comes off in dramatic and satisfying style. Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which the company last performed in 2003, requires a strong central soprano, and in the Mexican singer Maria Alejandres, Palm Beach … [Read more...]