Show Boat

Ooooh…America's story, it just keeps rollin' along music by Jerome Kern book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II A hundred years after its Broadway debut, Opera Orlando presents Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s landmark American musical in Steinmetz Hall in a semi-staged concert production — with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra on stage and a combined chorus drawn from Opera Orlando and Bethune-Cookman University . With stage direction by Roberta Emerson and conductor Dr. Everett McCorvey , this is the right team to bring Show Boat home. Grammy Award-winning baritone Gabriel Preisser takes on the role of Gaylord Ravenal with bass-baritone Brandon Coleman as Joe. Available as a special event add-on for MainStage subscribers . sung in English with English and Spanish supertitles approximate run time of two hours and forty-five minutes with one intermission