Palm Beach Opera’s first-ever outdoor festival opens on Feb. 19, featuring a star-studded cast of Metropolitan Opera Stars in live performances of “La bohème,” “Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute),” and “Pagliacci” at the South Florida Fairgrounds’ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre. PBO’s outdoor festival, which runs Feb. 19-27, will present live opera on the largest scale since… Palm Beach Opera’s first-ever outdoor festival features a star-studded cast in live performances of “La bohème,” “Pagliacci,” and “Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)” at the South Florida Fairgrounds’ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre on Feb. 19-27. “We are thrilled to present our first-ever outdoor festival and provide opera lovers coming from across our nation with an opportunity… After weeks of working with Palm Beach Opera and Whole Vibes, the Interability Chorus, made up of adults with disabilities and special needs, presents a collaborative digital performance of “This is Me” from the popular film “The Greatest Showman.” Now in its second term, the one-of-a-kind music program is a partnership between Palm Beach Opera,… Palm Beach Opera is selected as one of Palm Beach County’s nonprofit arts organizations to receive $50,000 in Coronavirus relief funding from National Endowment for the Arts. Funded through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the NEA grant will help Palm Beach Opera support staff salaries, pay for artist and facilities fees, and… Palm Beach Opera shares digital, weekly opera performances with West Palm Beach’s YMCA, Alzheimer’s Community Care, and Palm Beach Habilitation Center among others, providing music to some of South Florida’s most isolated individuals. Palm Beach Opera is partnering with local organizations and long-term care facilities to bring its new digital recital series, “An die Musik,”… Opera Reopens in America at Palm Beach Opera’s Outdoor Festival
Palm Beach Opera’s Outdoor Opera Festival Presents Star-Studded Cast
The Interability Chorus Performs “This is Me”
Palm Beach Opera Awarded $50,000 from National Endowment for the Arts
Palm Beach Opera Enhances Operations to Bring Digital Opera to YMCA, Alzheimer’s Community Care, Long-Term Care Facilities
Caroline Collado
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“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.