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Palm Beach Opera to Present Matthew Polenzani at 2019 Gala

West Palm Beach, Florida (May 1) — Palm Beach Opera is honored to announce that internationally-renowned tenor Matthew Polenzani will headline the company’s 2019 Gala on March 2, 2019, at Manalapan’s luxurious Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa.

Praised by The New York Times for his “ardor, richness and power,” Polenzani is among the most gifted tenors of his time. This season, the Chicago native returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago to sing in Rigoletto and Les Pêcheurs de Perles before heading to The Metropolitan Opera to perform Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, which can be seen on PBS when the network’s latest season of Great Performances at the Met that premiered nationwide on April 29.

Regarded as “perhaps the finest tenor voice of his generation” by The Phoenix, Polenzani has starred in more than 300 performances at the Met, including La traviata, Roméo et Juliette, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Die Zauberflöte, with a repertoire of diverse performances at leading operatic and concert venues worldwide.

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Palm Beach Opera 2018-19 Mainstage Season Announcement

Palm Beach Opera 2018-19 Mainstage Season Announcement

Palm Beach Opera has announced its 2018-2019 mainstage opera season, which will include performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, as well as a new concert, Rising Stars of Opera. All of Palm Beach Opera’s thrilling and elaborate productions will be performed in the Dreyfoos Concert…

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Opera Announces Programs with The Lord’s Place

Opera Announces Programs with The Lord’s Place

Palm Beach Opera is proud to announce a new collaboration with The Lord’s Place, a local leader aimed at eradicating homelessness in Palm Beach County. Palm Beach Opera will bring both its ANIMA program and Story Time Series to The Lord’s Place family campus in West Palm Beach this fall. Story Time Series makes opera…

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Palm Beach Opera 2018 Season Announcement

Palm Beach Opera 2018 Season Announcement

Palm Beach Opera is thrilled to announce the 2018 mainstage opera season, which will include performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca January 26-28, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide February 23-25, and Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart March 23-25. All mainstage opera performances will take place at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.

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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 bohème, Die 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.