Less is more
Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera’s production.
Jacob Ashworth
11 pieces since 2015 — at 2 companies, most often at Heartbeat Opera.
11
pieces
2
companies
12
years
By company
More than a material girl
The vivacious MANON! at Heartbeat Opera makes a strong case for the return of opera in translation.
Shadows of a doubt
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
Kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Only disordered and volcanic intellects need apply for this beautifully deranged production of Salome from Heartbeat Opera
Witchery and bitchery
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
At liberty to divulge
If it didn’t all work, it wouldn’t work at all.
Prick and choose
Heartbeat Opera knows how to party.
A Messy Little Christmas
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.
Too much, too soon
Heartbeat is, after all, a company that loves to tinker.
Fixing the fan
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?
Et in Arcadia, libido
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 […]
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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