WHEN: March
19-April 12 WHERE: The Wick Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton COST: $89-$119 CONTACT: 561/9952333, thewick.org Between the technical pageantry, the indelible characters and, foremost, the irresistible songs, “Camelot” continues to be a defining achievement of composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. Riffing on the legend of King Arthur and all of its attendant pleasures— the time-traveling magician Merlin, the chivalric Knights of the Round Table, and the love triangle among Arthur, his spouse Guinevere and the dashing knight Lancelot—“Camelot” is flush with a timeless romanticism. The show’s 1960 Broadway premiere netted four Tony Awards, and actors such as Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet and Richard Harris have donned the crowns, frocks and armor over the years. The Wick’s production is sure to be among its most lavish and enchanting shows of the season.
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THE SYMPHONIA: “BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR”
WHEN: March 8, 3 p.m. WHERE: St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, 100 N.E. Mizner Blvd.,
Boca Raton COST: $58-$95 CONTACT: 561/376-3848, thesymphonia.org Beethoven never referred to his Piano Concerto No. 5 by its now-familiar sobriquet, the “Emperor Concerto,”because the great composer was no fan of his era’s emperor du jour, the warring Napoleon Bonaparte. But the military themes and heroic nature of this 40-minute masterwork have helped ensure its lasting appeal across more than two centuries. In 1860, Beethoven’s biographer called the “Emperor”“the summit of all concerto music ever written.”And in the words of a contemporary YouTube commenter, “I want to die to this music.”As of 2021, the piece held the record for the most-performed concerto at Carnegie Hall (215 times). At this performance, guest soloist Lindsay Garritson will lead from the piano.
PALM BEACH OPERA: “RIGOLETTO”
WHEN: March 20-22 WHERE: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd.,
West Palm Beach COST: $28.75-$218.50 CONTACT: 561/832-7469, kravis.org For a tale named after a hunch-backed court jester, Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” is no laughing matter. The 1851 tragedy has all the dark machinations of a Scorsese movie: a contract killer; a womanizing duke; the cursed title character, planning a revenge plot that goes awry; and an innocent daughter caught in the crossfire. Verdi’s source material, a Victor Hugo play, was so controversial that the composer was still writing and re-writing, in an attempt to appease the Austrian Board of Censors, until a month before the show’s premiere. Recognizing familiar archetypes amid its royal trappings, modern opera companies have changed the setting to New York City’s mafia culture, the Rat Pack era of ‘60s Las Vegas, the beastly anarchy of“Planet of the Apes”and Mussolini’s Italy. “Rigoletto”
Lindsay Garritson
PAT METHENY
WHEN: March 12-13,
7:30 p.m. WHERE: The Parker, 707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale COST: $82-$270 CONTACT: 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org Pat Metheny has stayed humble. In a 2018 interview with the National Endowment for the Arts, the guitar god described the “balance of mixing a lot of written material with deeply challenging Pat Metheny improvisational material”as “an area I’m still working on.”The labor continues all spring as the 71-year-old jazz titan tours with his latest quartet, Side-Eye III+. Fresh off a pair of spartan solo releases in 2023 and 2024, Metheny’s return to the classic quartet format is anything but a retreat into familiar structures. Always forward-thinking— from his embryonic work as a member of vibraphonist Gary Burton’s lyrical quintet, to his collaborations with mavericks like Ornette Coleman, to his embrace of a machine-generated orchestra on 2010’s “Orchestrion”project—Metheny’s music hums with vitality and beauty, freedom and swing. Side-Eye III+ sees him touring with emerging jazz stars Chris Fishman (piano), Joe Dyson (drums) and Jermaine Paul (bass).
JIMMY KATZ/COURTESY OF BROWARD CENTER
WHAT: “CAMELOT”
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