Too much, too soon
Heartbeat is, after all, a company that loves to tinker.
6 pieces since 2018 — in 5 roles, at 2 companies, most often at St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Heartbeat is, after all, a company that loves to tinker.
Lady M, an Online Fantasia on Verdi’s Macbeth, Heartbeat Opera’s creative and thought-provoking foray into the Zoom opera scene, left me feeling alternately pensive, hopeful and somewhat uneasy, in a good way.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra offered a rending reading of Britten‘s massive War Requiem with an eclectic trio of soloists.
Do we do what we have to do? Or do we have to do what we do?
Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder and Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot are, in their different ways, the final decadent flowering of a musical tradition at its twilight.
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