Pandemic? What pandemic?
As if coming out of a solitary confinement, the 2022-23 art season returned with enthusiasm, with comprehensive slates of art exhibitions, concerts, lectures, plays, operas, ballets, and performances of all genres and grades.
We needed a full segment of the document to tell you, but there is still a little more that we will have to accept as true for you to locate it yourself. In the meantime, here’s a long look at the upcoming season, a season that makes a very strong case for South Florida as a cultural hotspot that citizens and winter visitors are privileged to enjoy.
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS
For about 90 years, Four Arts has provided cultural events to the citizens of Palm Beach and surrounding areas, and this season is returning to the pre-COVID way with a busy schedule of art exhibits, concerts, films, speakers, and educational events. .
Art exhibitions at the Esther B. GalleryO’Keeffe include:
* Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese lacquer sculpture, an exhibition of 33 works by 16 new artists that run in the centuries-old lacquer culture. The exhibition will be open from December 3 to January 22.
* Contemplative character: portrait drawings and oil sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud is a look at the history of portraiture from the eighteenth century to the present day. Among the 81 works are pieces through David and Freud, such as Edgar Degas and Pierre Bonnard. La exhibition runs from February 4 to April 2.
* Eduard Angeli: Cities on Water 11 giant landscapes of Venice, Istanbul and St. Petersburg, Russia, through the 80-year-old Austrian artist, who enjoys this exhibition of his first American exhibition. Time as a contemplative character.
* 2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards is an exhibition of African photography through this year’s winners of the Mkapa competition, which will be announced on October 27 at a rite in Nairobi. The exhibition will be open from April 26 to June 4.
The concert series at the company’s Gubelmann Auditorium opens Nov. 30 with a Christmas concert through Chanticleer, the San Francisco Grammy-winning 12-part men’s choir whose recording series includes several faithful to the Christmas repertoire. The atmosphere continues on Dec. 4 with a loose Christmas carol concert Sunday afternoon on the lawn through the Palm Beach Atlantic University Choir.
A historic occasion occurred Jan. 29 when the Emerson String Quartet, retiring after 47 years, stops in Palm Beach on its farewell tour. The veterans’ organization isn’t the only string quartet to arrive at Gubelmann. The young string quartet Calidore (January 15) is in the books, as is the Miró Quartet (February 22), which brings on board clarinetist David Shifrin to pay tribute to jazz legend Benny Goodman. Violinist Paul Huang will join pianist Anne-Marie McDermott on January 18, followed by the Romeros Guitar Quartet (January 22) and the Sitkovetsky Trio (April 2). And superstars from brass quintet The Canadian Brass are in town on Dec. 7.
Lovers of piano recitals will only be interested in the appearances of the American pianist Emanuel Axe (January 8); the Dutch piano duo of brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen (February 12); and the young Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen on April 12. Three Chamber Music Society systems at Lincoln Center (March 5, 8 and 12) read about Franz Schubert’s paintings, and on March 15, Lincoln Center musicians will be offering a program of twentieth-century American music from the last century.
As always, the Four Arts bring bluegrass to society in April, this time with Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers (April 16). Benny Benack III for the music of the Great American Songbook (February 1).
And on April 30, fans of nineteenth-century British soft operas will be there for the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, who will perform an abbreviated one-act edition of Pirates of Penzance, followed by selections from other operas through the duo. , adding Iolanthe, H. M. S. Pinafore and Le Mikado. In the end, players agree to accept audience requests for any other G selection.
To summarize the live events is an appearance through the National Dance Company of the Republic of Georgia (March 22) and “Winter Journey,” a two-part event featuring the 2019 film of the same call based on NPR’s true story Classical music host Martin Goldsmith musician parents, who escaped the Nazis (28 March; Goldsmith will handle a response session. )On March 29, a concert similar to the memoirs and film will be held, with a wind and piano sextet performing music through composers silenced through the Holocaust.
The company also offers a long season of films, revivals of opera productions by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, plays by the National Theatre of Great Britain, art documentaries and advertising films.
The Met’s operas begin with local heroine Nadine Sierra in the role of tragic name in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (December 3), followed a week later (December 10) through American composer Kevin Puts’ The Hours, in Michael Cunningham’s novel and starring Renee Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato. Giordano’s Fedora (January 14), Brett Dean’s Hamlet (January 21), Puccini’s Turandot (February 11), Wagner’s Lohengrin (March 18), Verdi’s Don Carlos (April 1) and Richard Strauss’s Der Sigue Rosenkavalier (April 22), and the season ends on April 29 with a grainy revival of a once-well-known opera. Medea by Luigi Cherubini. Tickets for the operas are $30.
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays the epic role of King Henry V in Shakespeare’s classic play (“We few, we satised few, / We band of brothers”) from the same performance at the National Theater on January 28. they include Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (January 11): Jack Absolute Flies Again (February 26), a remake of Sheridan’s The Rivals via Richard Bean and Oliver Chris; David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy (March 11), a remedy to life for New York urban planner Robert Moses, starring Ralph Fiennes; and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (March 25), set in a fashionable hotel in Messina, on the Italian Riviera.
The Great Art on Screen series opens on Tutankhamun: the last exhibition (November 20), Ernest Pagano’s look at the phenomenon of King Tutankhamun on the occasion of the centenary of the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. This is followed by Maverick Modigliani (December 11), examination of the centenary of the life and painting of the Italian modernist Amedeo Modigliani; Botticelli: Florence and the Medici (March 19), Marco Piangiani’s deep immersion in fifteenth-century Italy and the career of the painter Sandro Botticelli; Napoleon: In the Name of Art (March 26), a documentary narrated through Jeremy Irons about the French conqueror and his influence on art; and Pompeii: Sin City (April 15), a look at how art depicted the city frozen in time across a volcano in 79 AD, with narration through Isabella Rossellini.
Two loose dance programs should not be overlooked: a filmed screening of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (December 17), performed through the National Ballet Company of the Ukrainian Opera, and a performance through the City of Miami Ballet School of a new children’s ballet show titled Rita Finds Home (February 25).
Finally, a series of 19 more recent films that begins on November 18 until 1917, Sam Mendes’ World War I story in 2019 (November 18) and ends on May 19 with a 2022 documentary, Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, which looks at the troubled 737 Max program.
Each winter season brings with it many speakers from across the cultural and political landscape. Thirteen of those speakers are at this season’s appointment, which begins just after the new year (Jan. 3) with Palm Beacher Leonard Lauder giving a lecture titled “Faith With Estée,” about his mother Estée Lauder, founder of the cosmetics empire her son ran at the time. Esther B. O’Keeffe’s speaker series continues with retired Gen. David Petraeus (January 10); Christie’s Vice President John Hays, a familiar face at PBS’s Antiques Roadshow (Jan. 17); and Broadway director John Mauceri (Jan. 24), who will talk about the early composers who provided music for Hollywood Golden Age films.
Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of the British spy firm MI5, will give a lecture titled “Terror, Security and Freedom” on January 31, followed next week by Deepak Malhotra of Harvard Business School, who will read about British Prime Minister Neville’s negotiations in 1938. with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler on the eve of World War II for strategic classes (February 4). Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan returns to the series on Feb. 14 to predict the future, after which Fox News commentator Jessie Watters takes the plunge on Feb. 2. 21.
Spanish opera star Placido Domingo talks about his life in music on February 28, and a week later (March 7), Palm Beacher, monetary titan Ken Griffin, offers a lecture titled “The Future of Finance. “Tal Zaks, who led the drug progression procedure at Moderna that led to one of the COVID-19 vaccines, tells this story on March 14 and March 21, Laurence Des Cars, the last president of the French Louvre and its first female leader. , defined his vision for this prestigious institution.
The series concludes March 28 with a statement from Sally Mann, one of America’s best-known fresh photographers, who will review her decades of work. All discussions will take place at 3:00 p. m. Tuesdays at the Gubelmann Auditorium.
And if that were not enough, Four Arts offers endless conferences, workshops and master categories in its Campus on the Lake lifelong learning programs. There are also excursions, especially the one planned for December 2, when a bus will depart Four Arts for a day to Art Basel Miami Beach when this world art fair begins. For more information, visit fourarts. org or call 561-655-7226.
KRAVIS CENTER
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts opened only 30 years ago, in September 1992, but established itself as a vital component of the region’s cultural life.
The precedent of many is Kravis on Broadway, which has been presenting corporations of leading musical actors for 15 years. The season opens Nov. 15-20 with On Your Feet!, a jukebox musical about the life and times of Miami icons Gloria and Emilio Estefan. .
This is because:
* Disney’s Aladdin (December 14-23), Alan Menken’s musical edition of popular Arabic folklore.
* Hadestown (January 3 to 8): musical by Anais Mitchell on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
* Tootsie (February 7-12): David Yazbek’s musical about the 1982 comedy Dustin Hoffman about an unfortunate actor who disguises himself as a tight female ego to find work.
Pretty Woman: The Musical (March 7-12): A musical by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance based on Richard Gere-Julia Roberts’ 1990 film about a prostitute whose mission with a businessman leads to love.
* Wicked (March 29–April 9): Stephen Schwartz’s 2003 hit musical about the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 fanfiction novel about The Wizard of Oz.
* Ain’t Too Proud (April 26-30): The 2018 jukebox musical featuring songs and life stories by Dominique Morriseau of Motown supergroup The Temptations.
Coming soon in May, though it’s not part of the Kravis on Broadway series, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Lawrence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin’s 2007 solution of the film, and the 2001 e-book that animated them both. The musical is scheduled for May 16-21.
Another of Kravis’ specialties is the Regional Arts classical music concert series that features his familiar combination of primary orchestras and touring soloists, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on November 9. This organization is followed on December 11 through the young American pianist George Li in a recital. .
Then comes the Hungarian Budapest Symphony Orchestra (January 10), then the Atlanta Symphony (January 13), then the Cleveland Orchestra on January 23 with Franz Welser-Möst achieving the musicians. German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter brings her Mutter Virtuosi to Kravis on January 31, and violinist Robert McDuffie joins the Munich Symphony Orchestra on February 5.
Violinist Gil Shaham joins the Philadelphia Orchestra on February thirteenth for the first of two concerts; French conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Philadelphians in a rarity, Bruch’s Double Concerto for Viola and Clarinet on Feb. 14. , the New World Symphony departs Miami Beach for a concert conducted by David Robertson with pianist Michelle Cann in a concert by African-American composer Florence Price.
The Regional Arts series concludes on March 19 with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra conducted by British violinist Daniel Hope in an all-American music program through Copland, Weill, Glass and Gershwin.
The Kravis Young Artists series continues this year, with saxophonist Stephen Banks (December 14), violin-percussion duo Vision Duo (January 16), cellist Oliver Herbert (February 16) and pianist Janice Carissa (March 2).
The outlet offers several exhibition packages, adding Adults at Leisure, which features music from pop to jazz to Broadway, and the Peak series, which features “innovative performances aimed at ethnic diversity and impactful themes,” as Kravis puts it.
These are some of Kravis’ performances during the month:
October: The Phantom of the Opera, Rupert Julian’s 1925 silent film classic, accompanied by music conducted by American organist Cameron Carpenter. (Oct. 29, 8 p. m. )
November: Neil Berg’s 112 years of Broadway, a review of hit songs from Broadway musicals (November 14, 11 a. m. y 2 p. m. ); Dirty Dancing in Concert, screening of the 1987 film starring Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze, accompanied by a live band, which will present a post-cinema (November 23, 7:30 p. m. ); One Night of Queen, concert by the British glam band conducted by the tribute band Gary Mullen and The Works (November 26, 20 h)
December: One Night in Memphis: Presley, Perkins, Lewis and Cash, a tribute concert to rock pioneers who reunited legendarily at the Sun Studios in Memphis for a jam consultation (December 7, 11:00 a. m. and 2:00 p. m. ); Lewis Black, the noted irascible comedian, brings his tirades to Dreyfoos Hall on his Off the Rails excursion (Dec. 9, 8 p. m. ); Black Violin, the South Florida hip-hop duo consisting of violinist Kev Marcus and violist Will B. , a festive event on their Give Thanks excursion (Dec. 12, 7:30 p. m. m. )
Later that month, South Africa’s Soweto Gospel Choir gives two performances at the Persson Hall of their Hope concert (December 19 and 20, 7:30 p. m. m. ); Here You Come Again: How Dolly Parton Saved My Life in 12 Easy Songs, a new two-person musical about a comedian at home from the COVID pandemic who imagines Parton seems to him and is helping him out of his depression. (December 28) -31, 14:30 and 19:30)
January: I greet the Vienna New Year’s Concert, an annual Kravis occasion that mimics New Year’s culture in Vienna, with an orchestra, singers and dancers evoking the sounds and styles of the past nineteenth century (January 1, 8 p. m. ); Fela!: The Concert, a time at Fela!, the Broadway exhibition honoring Nigerian pop star Afrobeat Fela Kuti (January 14, 8 p. m. ); Aquila Theatre Company, presenting two performances of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (January 20, 7:30 p. m. , January 21, 1:30 p. m. ) and a dramatized edition of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (January 22, 1:30 p. m. and 7:30 a. m. ) 30 p. m. ), all at the Rinker Playhouse.
The late pop sensation Whitney Houston receives a tribute at 8 p. m. January 26 with Belinda Davids in The Greatest Love of All; The Kat and Dave Show, legendary songwriter and maker David Foster and his wife, American Idol star Katharine McPhee, on songs from their careers (January 27, 8 p. m. ); Blue Man Group, the unclassifiable painted percussion company (January 28, 8 p. m. , January 29, 1 p. m. and 6:30 p. m. )
February: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. , the enduring pop couple whose careers began in the late 1960s with The 5th Dimension (February 1, 8 p. m. ); Get Happy!, big band birthday party of the centenary of the legendary Judy Garland, hosted by Michael Feinstein (February 2, 20 h); Wheel of Fortune Live!, a traveling edition of the popular games exhibit (February 3, 8 p. m. ); Boyz II Men, concert of the outstanding organization R
At 7 pm. On February 15, the Kravis host an online outreach event with a Tasha Cobbs Leonard gospel gala; Dixie’s Tupperware Party, a solo exhibit (actually, actor Kris Andersson as drag) of the stories of Alabama RV Park resident Dixie Longate (Feb. 17, 8 p. M. , Feb. 18, 2 p. m. and 8 p. M. , Feb. 19, 2 a. m. and 7 p. m. ); Martha Redbone, a blues and soul singer who combines African-American and Native American traditions (February 25, 8 p. M. , Feb. 26, 1:30 p. m. ); The Hit Men, a classic five-man rock supergroup performing some of the biggest hits of the 1970s and 1980s (February 28, 11 a. M. , 2 p. m. ).
March: Alonzo King Lines Ballet, a performance of Deep River, a new King ballet that draws on the traditions of classical and fresh dance (March 3, 8 p. m. ); Jessica Vosk, Broadway singer and actress (Wicked, Bridges of Madison County) in concert (March 3 and 4, 7:30 p. m. m. , Rinker Playhouse); DRUMLine Live, a presentation of the taste of the high-step music band created in traditionally black schools and colleges (March 4, 8 p. m. , Dreyfoos Hall); and the legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld presenting his new stand-up regime (March 18, 7:00 p. m. and 9:30 p. m. ).
April: LatinXoxo by Migguel Anggelo, “a scandalously queer and genre concert experience” in which Anggelo emphasizes self-esteem as a combination of drama, humor and song (April 6 and 7, 7:30 p. m. ); Taj Express: Bollywood Jukebox, a review of the music and sound of the Bollywood culture of Indian cinema (April 10, 7:30 p. m. ); San Salvador, a French vocal organization that sings in the ancient Occitan language of southern France (April 11, 7:30 p. m. ); Postmodern Jukebox by Scott Bradlee, the exclusive musical ensemble that recasts popular songs like “All About That Bass” in swing and jazz styles (April 13, 8 p. m. );
The Price is Right Live!, traveling edition of a beloved game exhibition (April 15, 8 p. m. ); Live in Central Park (reviewed): Simon
The Kravis Center also hosts several occasions the umbrella of continuing arts education, adding the African American Film Festival, Lunch.
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART
A fresh look at paintings by a primary American artist and an examination of twentieth-century photography from a Swiss collection lead this season’s exhibitions at the Norton Museum of Art.
On view through Jan. 15, Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, featuring nature paintings, as well as devout images, of the Italian-born futurist, known for his paintings of the Brooklyn Bridge and other American commercial sites.
The exhibition was organized through the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Stella (1877-1946) grew up in Italy and came to the United States in 1896, where she chose art instead of the medical career her brother pursued in New York. After several successful years as an illustrator, he returned to Italy, then settled in Paris and returned definitively to the United States in 1913.
The exhibition consists of 90 works, all examining herb themes such as flowers, birds and plants. In addition to conscientiously observed studies such as The Water Lily (1924) and Banyan Tree (1938), there are paintings such as The Virgin (1926), in which the Virgin Mary is surrounded by a multitude of plants and birds.
The other major autumn exhibition, A Personal View of High Fashion and Street Style: Photographs from the Nicola Erni Collection, from 1930 to the present day, includes approximately three hundred photographs by more than one hundred artists. Erni, a Swiss collector, focuses on fashion and street photography. Exposed now, it will continue until February 12.
Included are the biggest names in photography of the last century, plus Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Amy Arbus and Cindy Sherman. The exhibition documents the beginnings of fashion photography at the turn of the century, then its progression and fashion occasions. like Christian Dior’s “New Look” and the evolution of street photography in the 80s.
Among the photographs is an iconic photo of Irving Penn by Jean Patchett for a 1950s Vogue cover; a 1988 take through Peter Lindbergh of six of the styles of the time (Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, Estelle Lefébure, Karen Alexander and Rachel Williams) riding on a Los Angeles beach; and a photo of Esther Haase for the German magazine Stern from 1999 appearing as a lion walking in Miami.
• This fall’s smaller exhibits come with Lalla Essaydi: Un/veiled, which opened in July and will be open through Nov. 6. This Moroccan photographer takes large-scale portraits of Arab women that she adorns with Arabic calligraphy.
• Henry Ossawa Tanner: Intimate Paintings, which runs through March 12, marks the acquisition through the Museum of Christ of this African-American painter of the House of Mary (1907). The paintings are exhibited with 3 other Tanner studios.
• Autumn Mountains and Harvest Moonlight, which opens January 15, features 4 works by Chinese painters created between 1722 and 2006. The works of Zhang Yuan, Zhou Kai, Arnold Chang and Liu Kuo-Sung expand the Chinese landscape tradition. .
On December 17 and until Christmas Eve 2024, he will be Interior with a sick woman next to a home (around 1654), by the little-known Dutch master of the golden age Jacobus Vrel.
For more information, see www. norton. org or call 561-832-5196.
FLAGLER MUSEUM
To celebrate Whitehall’s twentieth anniversary, the Flagler Museum’s autumn exhibition, The Story of Whitehall: Years in the Making, will tell the story of Whitehall’s many lives, as a home, club, hotel and museum.
The exhibition, which runs through Dec. 31, will feature a wealth of items and photographs from the museum’s archives and collections.
Returning to the Whitehall Music Room this season, the musical series has for years featured excellent chamber bands and concerts with a champagne reception.
The first is the Viano Quartet, a young band formed in Los Angeles in 2015 and now resident at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Winner of first prize at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2019, the Viano will play music through Haydn, Schumann and Alexander Borodin. (7 February)
Young emerging American violinist Simone Porter will be in recital on Feb. 14 with pianist Rohan De Silva, Itzhak Perlman’s longtime accompanist. Porter has programmed works through Beethoven, Baroque composer Heinrich Biber, new American composer Andrew Norman, and Caesar Franck’s familiar Sonata in A major.
It is followed by the Summit Piano Trio, a long-running at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, with a program of three of the most outstanding piano trios in literature: Haydn’s Gypsy Trio, with its famous finale; the First Trio No. 3 by Beethoven (in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3); and Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor (February 21)
The veteran Latin American Quartet arrives on February 28. In the program, in addition to the Quartet No. 5 by the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, the String Quartet No. 1 by the Spanish Ruperto Chapí, and the famous Prayer of the Bullfighter by the Spanish composer Joaquín Turina, are two fantasies through the English baroque composer Henry Purcell.
Closing the cycle on March 7, the Neave Trio, an American trio that programmed piano trios through Josef Suk, protégé and son-in-law of Antonin Dvorak; a trio rarely heard through British composer Ethel Smyth; and Maurice Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor.
Call 561-655-2833 for more information or flaglermuseum. us.
PALM BEACH OPERA HOUSE
The 61st season of the Palm Beach Opera begins in January with one of the world’s greatest operas, continues in February with an avant-garde comedy through Mozart and ends in March with the premiere of Verdi’s new masterpiece.
The first is Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 immortal crybaby, Madama Butterfly, the harrowing story of a Japanese geisha who marries a ruthless U. S. Navy lieutenant. The U. S. then leaves her temporarily and returns home to the United States, there to marry a “real” woman. The role of Cio-Cio-San (pronounced) will be shared by sopranos Jennifer Rowley (Friday and Sunday) and Toni Marle Palmertree (Saturday). Pinkerton will sing with tenors Jonathan Burton (Friday and Sunday) and Robert Watson (Saturday); mezzo-soprano Renee Tatum sings Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San’s faithful maid, and baritone Troy Cook sings Sharpless, the American consul who fails to convince Pinkerton to do the right thing with his teenage wife.
The opera will be conducted by Alison Mortiz and the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra will be conducted by Italian conductor Carlo Montanaro. The opera goes up a notch at Dreyfoos Hall at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach from Jan. 20-22.
The opera of the season (February 24-26) is Cosí fan tutte, a 1790 comedy by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with an original libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Sheesh!accompanied through an emoji that rolls his eyes), and his story can now be considered clearly misogynistic, actually does not let men go. It doesn’t hook either. A cynical old know-it-all “philosopher” bets on two young men that their girlfriends won’t stand firm before them. To achieve this, he phonically summons them to military service, after which they return in disguise to court each other’s girlfriend. , with confusing results.
soprano Hailey Clark is Fiordiligi and mezzo Samantha Hankey is Dorabella; his intentions are sung through tenor Duke Kim as Ferrando and baritone Thomas Glass as Guglielmo. Baritone Dennis Jesse is Don Alfonso, the philosopher, and soprano Madison Leonard is Despina, the maid who is helping Alfonso shoot the 4 lovers. Beach Opera director David Stern directs the music and staging is handled by Fenlon Lamb.
Closing the season, Giuseppe Verdi’s 1893 Shakespeare play, Falstaff, premiered in the composer’s 80s and only the comedy of the moment in his 27 operas. The Palm Beach Opera presents this opera (March 24-26) for the first time in the company’s history. The Merry Wives of Windsor (and a touch of Henry IV, Part 1), the opera turns the fat, bag-loving gentleman into a laughable figure and ends with triumphant love.
Baritone Michael Chioldi, a corporate favorite, plays the role of Falstaff. Soprano Amber Wagner is Alice Ford, mezzo-soprano Lauren Decker is Mistress Quickly and baritone Andrew Manea is Ford. Nanetta is soprano Andrea Carroll, with mezzo-soprano Meridian Prall as Meg Page. Antonello Allemandi returns to the pit, and the staging is in charge of Garnett Bruce.
All operas take place at the Kravis Center and are presented with English subtitles (each of them is sung in its original Italian). Call 561-833-7888 or pbopera. org for more information.
PALM BEACH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
An impressive lineup of eminent soloists is set to perform this season with the Palm Beach Symphony and its conductor, Gerard Schwarz. A world premiere through a prominent American composer is also planned, and many works from the concert repertoire are presented for the first time through the orchestra. Most concerts take place in the Dreyfoos Hall of the Kravis Center.
The orchestra opens its season well (a children’s concert was presented on October 16) on Sunday, November 6 with violinist Sarah Chang in German Romantic composer Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Schwarz will also conduct the orchestra in Brahms’ Second Symphony and Rounds. , a painting for string orchestra by American composer David Diamond, whose paintings Schwarz defended his 26 years performing the Seattle Symphony. The concert is scheduled for 3 p. m.
American pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs Beethoven’s Concerto for the Emperor (No. five in E-flat, Op. 73), on December 1 with the orchestra. The opening of the program is Night Ride and Sunrise, a symphonic poem by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. , and Schwarz closes it with the Symphony for organ (No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78) by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. La music begins at 20:00 hours.
Starting next week, the orchestra will offer two performances of George Frideric’s oratorio Messiah Handel. Soloists Rothroughn Marie Lamp, Stephanie Doche, Jonathan Johnson and Richard Ollasarba are joined by Florida Atlantic University Chamber Singers and Schola Cantorum of Florida for two performances of the oratorio. , at 7:30 p. m. on Friday, December nine and at 3:00 p. m. Saturday, December 10 at Rosarian Academy in West Palm Beach.
The action returns to Kravis on January 30, when the orchestra hosts mezzo-soprano Susan Graham to perform arias by Mozart, Berlioz and Franz Lehár, as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. In addition, the orchestra will perform Debussy’s evocative Afternoon. of a faun and the hard Symphony No. 10 by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. The concert is scheduled for 8 p. m.
Another principal pianist of the previous generation, Misha Dichter, is the soloist of the most admired piano concerto of all Americans, George Gerswhin’s Concerto in F, on March 14. The concert also includes a world premiere, a piece written in particular for the orchestra. through the American composer Joseph Schwantner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ballet The Firebird, completes the evening; The concert starts at 8pm.
The outstanding American violinist Joshua Bell arrives in Kravis on April 16 with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto (in E minor, Op. 64), one of the most emblematic of all violin concertos. For this performance, Bell composed his own cadence. More Mendelssohn opens the concert with the Hebrides Overture. Schwarz ends the 8 p. m. concerto with Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony (No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 55), a revolutionary piece that has replaced the symphonic form.
The Palm Beach Symphony’s season extends next month with a May 15 concert with Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires, who was scheduled to play with the orchestra last season but withdrew. Pires will be heard in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 (in A, K. 488). Another soloist, the orchestra’s principal trombonist, Domingo Pagliuca, is honored with Monuments, a painting for trombone and string orchestra by American composer Adolphus Hailstork. Schwarz closes the concert and season with Belgian composer César Franck’s Symphony in D minor, once a staple of symphonic systems but rarely heard today.
The Kravis Center concert begins at 7:30 p. m. For more information, stop at www. palmbeachsymphony. org or call 561-281-0145. Guests can also make a stop at the orchestra box at 400 Hibiscus St. , West Palm Beach, from 10 a. m. M. A 3 p. m. Monday to Friday.
Dramas de Palm Beach
The theater season includes two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog and Tracy Letts’ August: Tracy Letts’ Osage County; Pulitzer Prize finalist, 4000 miles, through Amy Herzog; the world premiere of Carter W. ‘s The Science of Leaving Omaha. Lewis; and Reginald Rose’s classic Twelve Angry Men.
The season began Oct. 14 with 4,000 miles, a story about closing the generation gap. At the end of an agonizing cross-country motorcycle ride, Leo, 21, shows up unannounced at his 91-year-old son’s West Village apartment. -old grandmother Vera. Directed through J. Barry Lewis, 4000 Miles runs through October 30 at the Don
Twelve Angry Men, also directed by Lewis, runs December 9-24. In this eternal, tense and immortal classic, 12 jurors planned the fate of a teenager accused of killing his father. man’s guilt.
The world premiere at the theater of The Science of Leaving Omaha, directed by Bruce Linser, is scheduled for Feb. 3-19. It tells the story of Iris, who feels trapped in her paintings in a crematorium and needs to leave Omaha. When Baker bursts into the funeral home to say goodbye to his recently deceased wife, he and Iris spend an unpredictable night combined with humor.
August: Osage County, led by William Hayes, runs from March 31 to April 16. It tells the story of the Weston family, an extended family so bitter and besieged that dysfunction would be a step forward. Violet Weston is the matriarch who takes pastillas. de where the tired and alcoholic husband leaves one morning, never to return.
The season ends with Topdog/Underdog, which runs from May 26 to June 11. Directed by Be Boyd, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of African-American brothers Lincoln and Booth, so named because their father thought it was funny. Spiritually wounded and in light recovery, the brothers live in the sordid lodging of Booth, where they denigrate each other.
MIAMI CITY BALLET
The Miami City Ballet offers a season that will pay tribute to the giants of choreography and inaugurate new works through young creators of avant-garde dance.
Season 37 opens at the Kravis Center on November 11 with a return to the live orchestra’s accompaniment program.
The season begins with Show 1: Romeo and Juliet through John Cranko. With opulent sets and costumes and striking score through Sergei Prokofiev, Cranko’s production is iconic.
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker arrives in Kravis on December 28 for five performances of the Christmas tale of Mary and her prince The Nutcracker, danced to Tchaikovsky’s score.
Program 2: Modern Masters begins February 17 and features the premiere of Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels and José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane. A world premiere by Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg and Amy Hall Garner is also planned.
Program 3: Fresh
Balanchine’s respected Symphony in C, with music by Georges Bizet, returns with a cast of 50 members, dressed in bright white tutus, representing what many of his ballets are musically more complex.
For the “fresh” component of the program, Durante Verzola will premiere paintings celebrating the city of Miami, with fashion creations by Esteban Cortázar and music by Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona.
Program 4: Tickets closes the season from May 12 to 14 with 4 works by Balanchine and Robbins.
Robbins’ contributions are Afternoon of a Faun and the first group of Antique Epigraphs, either with music by Claude Debussy. Balanchine’s offerings are Symphony in Three Movements, with music by Igor Stravinsky and Square Dance, with music by Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli.