Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera’s production.
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
With only a few weeks left to slice up our pumpkins and track down the perfect Luigi for our Mario, the timing seems right for a pair of Gothic operas set in a crypt.
Wedlock, betrayal, sibling rivalry, feminism, and union strikes give the opera Morning Star much of its driving thematic material.
LoftOpera is just one, though perhaps the liveliest, of many homegrown opera troupes in Brooklyn.
After 23 years, the Queen of Carthage has finally made it to Manhattan.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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