Daily News staff report
The Palm Beach Opera will celebrate its 60th anniversary this coming season with a three-opera lineup of well-known works, including two comedies and one of the world’s most-admired tragedies.
The operas will be presented at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, the troupe’s usual home. In February, the company hosted a three-opera outdoor festival at the South Florida Fairgrounds, in what was a rare national return to staged opera amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The season will open Jan. 28-30 with one of the most popular operas in the repertoire, French composer Georges Bizet’s 1875 melodrama "Carmen," the story of the tragic love of Don José, a Spanish soldier, for Carmen, a tempestuous Roma woman who refuses to be bound to conventional ways. The opera, the last major work of its short-lived composer, contains some of the best-known melodies in opera, such as Carmen's “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song.”