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Point Source backs Palm Beach open air opera Tuesday, 16 March 2021 Soprano Latonia Moore USA - Palm Beach Opera has brought joy to Florida’s classical music fans with an innovative opera festival with nine days of performances at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. The socially distanced event was the company’s first outdoor, open-air festival which implemented a variety of measures to ensure the safety of performers, crew and audience members alike. With the outdoor venue not providing the perfect acoustic environment expected at operatic performances, a sound reinf...

Marcio Bezerra Special to the Daily News Palm Beach Opera’s inaugural open-air festival at the South Florida Fairgrounds came to its conclusion Saturday with a visceral performance of Ruggero Leoncavallo's ever-popular "Pagliacci." Premiered in 1892, the short opera, usually coupled with Mascagni’s "Cavalleria Rusticana," benefited by being performed alone, thanks especially to the masterful stage direction by James Robinson. Indeed, despite the bare-bones sets and the required social distancing among singers, their convincing acting kept the audience on their seats' edges throughout th...

"This really is where the eyes of the entire opera industry are looking."

Love, jealousy and magic will be on stage during Palm Beach Opera’s first opera festival. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company moved its 2021 season from the Kravis Center to the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach to better allow for social distancing.  The company will perform Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" on Friday and Wednesday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute" on Sunday and Feb. 26, and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" on Tuesday and Feb. 27.  The Palm Beach Opera managed to book some of the major operatic artists fr...