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By Rex Hearn

Just three visiting orchestras Soprano Erika Baikoff is the heroine and the great amazingly, for a soprano of such high caliber, her first
are left in Kravis Center’s Mark Delavan, who was Wotan in The Met’s last Wagner Puccini leading lady role! Bartoli was superb. A Callas
Classical Music Series formally Ring Cycle, lends his rich baritone to the role of the in the making at her Lisbon Traviata best. Tenor Mario
known as the Regional Arts villain. David Stern conducts. Greg Ritchey is chorus Chang’s opening aria, Recondita armonia disappointed as
Concerts, once so ably led by master. David Gately directs. Call the box office for more did most of his performance, he excelled however in the
the late Sharon McDaniel. You information at (561) 833-7888. last duet with Bartoli of Act lll. Baron Scarpia, sung by
can look forward to hearing Palm Beach Symphony bass-baritone Greer Grimsley did not have the threatening
the Rotterdam Philharmonic Now first-class under the leadership of conductor presence to scare the daylights out of cast and audience,
from Holland, the Vienna Gerard Schwarz, two concerts remain this season in so necessary to make the plot compulsive. This may have
Philharmonic from Austria the Kravis Center: Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. and been due to Omer Ben Seadia’s direction, everything
and England’s Academy of St. Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. The first concert is a seemed subdued from beginning to end, especially the
Martin in the Fields. World Premiere composition by Aaron Kernis followed firing squad soldiers and the guards on the battlements of
Kravis Center by Emanuel Ax in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25 in C Castel Gandolfo in Act lll. They slouched limpidly, as if
On Monday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., the 100-year-old Major.K.503. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 ends this bored out of their minds. Nothing was spirited or military
Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Lahav Shani will concert. The last April 25th date begins with Beethoven’s about them. The touch of comedy in this dramatic work,
play Arvo Pärt’s Swansong; Mozart’s Piano Concerto Piano Concerto No. 2 with Ignat Solzhenitsyn at the libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa is provided
No. 9, in E flat Major, K.271; and Prokofiev’s Romeo & keyboard and the massed choirs of Miami’s Frost School by the Sacristan of the church of Sant Andrea della Valle,
Juliet ballet music. The brilliant Daniil Trifonov plays the of Music in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, his last, No the wonderful Adelmo Guidarelli. His hand and body
Mozart concerto. Next, on Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. 9. (Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125). Solzhenitsyn gestures spoke volumes! The roles of Angelotti, Spoletta,
and Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m., the Vienna Philharmonic is indeed the son of Nobel Laureate, the late Aleksandr Sciarrone, The Jailer and Shepherd were from Palm Beach
led by guest conductor, Franz Welser-Möst plays Berg’s Solzhenitsyn, Soviet-era dissident. Soloists in the Choral Opera’s excellent resident and studio artists, respectively:
Three Pieces for Orchestra; Mahler’s 9th Symphony and Symphony are: Hayley Lipke, soprano; Robynne Redman, Edward Thomas Bland, Devin Eatmon, David Wolfe, Jacob
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. Founded in 1842 mezzo; Joseph McBrayer, tenor; and Keith Klein, bass. O’Shea and Maya Brown, all of whom gave accomplished
the Vienna Phil is the oldest professional orchestra in the Gerard Schwarz, conducts both concerts. The Palm Beach performances. Lighting designer, Joe Beumer, has yet to
world. Lastly, on March 18 at 7:30 p.m., the Academy of Symphony is now in its 50th year. Call the box office for learn that one can have dark backgrounds and still succeed
St. Martin in the Fields led from the first violin chair by additional information, (561) 281-0145. in showing the faces of characters as they sing their parts.
the great Joshua Bell will thrill you with their vitality and He does the artists a disservice. And the audience too. Alas,
his solo violin playing; program to be announced. Call the Palm Beach Opera’s Tosca a minority, rush for the exits to get to their cars, ignoring
box office for more information at (561) 832-7469. respect due to the artists who give so
Palm Beach Opera This performance of Puccini’s Tosca was a feast for much. Improvements made
From March 1 to 3 at the Kravis Center you will hear the eyes, brilliant scenery, perfect period costumes and some time ago make for
the best singers around in Offenbach’s wonderful The Tales a thrilling church scene thronged with bishops, clergy, swifter departures now from
of Hoffman. These are four fun stories in which the lead choristers and communicants in Act l. parking garages, over times
male never gets the girl! On Friday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. Greg Ritchey’s chorus singers were excellent but the past. The next opera, The Tales
and Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m., tenor Kang Wang sings orchestra sounded muted; none of Puccini’s orchestral of Hoffman is from March 1 to
Hoffman in his debut; soprano Brandie Sutton sings the brilliance came through to where I was sitting. Standout of 3, with the great Mark Delavan.
four heroines and baritone Zachary Nelson sings the four the Jan. 28 matinee was soprano, Anastasia Bartoli, from Call the box office for more
villains. On Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. tenor Dominick Florence, Italy, making three debuts as the opera singer information, (561) 833-7888.
Chenes is Hoffman. Floria Tosca: her USA and Palm Beach Opera debut, and

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