Satan keeps the beat Satan keeps the beat

With tight, jazzy orchestrations, a queer-coded Mephistopheles, and sassy modern recitative, Heartbeat Opera’s fast 100-minute Faust delivers Gounod in miniature, minus some of the schmaltz.

Kiss me beneath the milky twilight 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 Witchery and bitchery

Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)

Baby crazy Baby crazy

Heartbeat Opera’s The Extinctionist — composed by Dan Schlosberg with a libretto by Amanda Quaid — is the first opera, as far as I know, to stage a pap smear.

At liberty to divulge At liberty to divulge

If it didn’t all work, it wouldn’t work at all.

Prick and choose Prick and choose

Heartbeat Opera knows how to party.

A Messy Little Christmas 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.

‘Lady’ Willpower ‘Lady’ Willpower

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.

Calling the shots Calling the shots

Heartbeat Opera has set Der Freischütz in a contemporary era, in a rural locale where gun culture reigns supreme and bullying is natural.

The lady in question The lady in question

The story shows what may happen when corrupt individuals occupy positions of trust.

Too much, too soon Too much, too soon

Heartbeat is, after all, a company that loves to tinker.

Fixing the fan 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?

Women past the verge Women past the verge

An astute double-feature exposes all the complexities of female suffering embedded within two canonical works.