Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera’s production.
The vivacious MANON! at Heartbeat Opera makes a strong case for the return of opera in translation.
R.B. Schlather‘s shadowy production with Heartbeat Opera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival proves that Vanessa might be coming into its own at last
Only disordered and volcanic intellects need apply for this beautifully deranged production of Salome from Heartbeat Opera
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
If it didn’t all work, it wouldn’t work at all.
Heartbeat Opera knows how to party.
Part vaudeville, part opera concert and part drag ball, Heartbeat Opera’s pageant was like a cup of eggnog spiked with a dash of LSD.
Heartbeat is, after all, a company that loves to tinker.
Cio-Cio and Carmen: what do you do with two tragic heroines who typify not just the sexist clichés, but also the soupy exotic fixations, of the Old-World West?
A performance space called the Sheen Center has opened its doors way down the far end of Bleecker Street, a stoner’s throw from where CBGB’s used to thrive beside the itsy-bitsy Amato Opera House. (You never forget your first Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio.) Sheen Center, sizable and modern and slim on personality, contains two…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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