(March 24-26)įor more information, call 56 or visit. The opera premiered the year Verdi turned 80, and it is considered a miraculous flowering of late style, a remarkable distillation of the composer’s rich melodic gift and his unparalleled knack for musical characterization. In it, the knight addicted to sack and sugar gets played for a fool, and young love is triumphant at the curtain. Palm Beach Opera closes its season with a company premiere: Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, the Italian master’s 1893 retelling of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor. Mozart’s gorgeous music has a way of eliding over Da Ponte’s plot, which now seems overtly misogynistic, and which today’s directors try to ameliorate with clever stage business. He brings them back in disguise (yes, not plausible, but disguise plots were fashionable in the 18th century) after phonily sending them off to war, and they are paired with each other’s paramour. Next up is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, a 1790 comedy to an original story by Lorenzo da Ponte in which an cynical old “philosopher” bets two young men that their girlfriends will not remain faithful to them. The cast and creatives for the operas had not been announced as of presstime. This 1904 drama about a teenage Japanese geisha who marries a callow American Navy lieutenant who then abandons her is one of opera’s best-known and best-loved weepies, with a score of well-known arias such as “Un bel di” and the “Stolta paura” love duet that closes Act I. Palm Beach Opera: The company opens its season in January with a work sure to draw large audiences at the Kravis Center: Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. It may be a while before that kind of opera programming comes to pass here, but one of the joys of operagoing in South Florida is discovering fresh new talent on its way to the big time. The country’s largest opera troupes are making moves this season into a much more modern direction, with new works, especially American ones, tackling some of the most urgent issues of our day: Race, technology, sexual orientation. South Florida’s two regional opera companies are adding some new things to a lineup heavy in audience favorites, while across the state in Sarasota, the repertory company is returning to an early Verdi masterwork and offering a French rarity.
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