Presenting Broadway's Best...In The West!
The Palm Springs Cultural Center is proud to present Season 3 of the acclaimed Broadway’s Best...in the West concert series. Executive Produced by Dr. Tom Truhe, the series features solo performances by some of Broadway's brightest stars. This month we present Paulo Szot
Paulo Szot is one of the most acclaimed and versatile baritones in the world, having garnered international acclaim as an opera singer, an award-winning musical theatre star, a consummate concert performer and an actor. He made his operatic debut in 1997 as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in a production of the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, directed by Enzo Dara and conducted by Luiz Fernando Malheiro. He has since appeared with most of the major opera companies in Europe, the United States, Australia and Brazil.
In 2008, Szot was cast as Emile De Becque in the Broadway revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher. He was awarded the Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle and Theater World Awards for his portrayal, becoming one of a few actors to receive such honors on a Broadway debut.
Szot appeared in a solo concert in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of the American Songbook Series, and several times at New York City’s prestigious Café Carlyle and 54 Below for a series of critically acclaimed solo performances. In concert, he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic alongside Liza Minnelli conducted by Marvin Hamlisch and made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Pops Orchestra in a program of Lerner and Loewe with Kelli O'Hara. He performed in a solo recital at Teatro Real de Madrid as a salute to Frank Sinatra & Antonio C. Jobim.
He returned to the New York Philharmonic in 2013 for a solo concert “An Evening with Paulo Szot” conducted by Ted Sperling and for the 2016/17 New Year’s Eve Gala with Joyce DiDonato conducted by Alan Gilbert.
With more than 70 opera productions in his résumé, Szot had his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2010 as Kovalyov in The Nose by Dimitri Shostakovich, conducted by Valery Gergiev and directed by William Kentridge. He returned to the Met for the six following seasons as Escamillo in Carmen (2011), Lescaut in Manon (2012), Kovalyov in The Nose (2013), Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus (2013/14), The Captain in John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer (2014), Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus (2015/16).
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