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.
Antonio Literes, a boy soprano from Majorca, had, we may presume, friends in high places.
With recent events in politics, it is becoming ever clearer that humankind hasn’t evolved much since the Enlightenment.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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