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Palm Beach Opera Toasts to 2023 Gala Chairs and Benefactors at Private Palm Beach Home

Palm Beach Opera celebrated the company’s upcoming gala and honored 2023 Gala Chairs Merrill and Charles Gottesman with an intimate performance by resident artists at Lee Ann and Jeffrey Alderton’s Palm Beach home on January 5th. Palm Beach Opera’s largest annual fundraising event, the gala showcases an internationally-recognized opera star over an elegant dinner at…

Palm Beach Opera Presents Inaugural Resident Artist Showcase, Marks First Performance at New Opera Center

Palm Beach Opera presented “beautiful voices” and elegant receptions at its inaugural Resident Artist Showcase on Dec. 10 at The Cornelia T. Bailey Opera Center, marking the first public event at PBO’s recently-purchased space. The inaugural Resident Artist Showcase featured a curated evening of opera scenes performed by PBO’s Benenson Young Artists and Bailey Apprentice…

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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.