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Palm Beach Opera Celebrates Upcoming Gala with Kickoff Reception at Escada

Worth avenue’s Escada hosted Palm Beach Opera’s Gala Kickoff Reception on Dec. 19 to celebrate the company’s upcoming gala and to commend the event sponsors and supporters. Guests included the company’s gala benefactors, whose support helps develop Palm Beach Opera’s largest annual fundraising event, which showcases a prominent artist over an elegant dinner. The 2019…

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Notable Mentions

“Palm Beach Opera, now approaching its sixtieth-anniversary season, has vaulted into the first rank of American opera companies and attracted considerable international attention as the first company in the pandemic era in North America to forge ahead with a full-length live opera.”
— The New Criterion

“The centerpiece of this year’s season”
—WLRN

“There was a palpable feeling of joy in the performance”
—Musical America

“Grand opera with major league singers at an alfresco venue”
—South Florida Classical Review

In February, Palm Beach Opera presented the first large-scale live opera event in the nation since the onset of the pandemic. Featuring Metropolitan Opera stars in live performances of classic operas La bohèmeDie Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), and Pagliacci outdoors at the South Florida Fairgrounds’ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre, PBO’s groundbreaking festival was celebrated as a “courageous winter operatic feast” by South Florida Classical Review and “breathtakingly beautiful” by Palm Beach Daily News.