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.
By Eli Jacobson
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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.
Heartbeat Opera has set Der Freischütz in a contemporary era, in a rural locale where gun culture reigns supreme and bullying is natural.
By John Yohalem
The story shows what may happen when corrupt individuals occupy positions of trust.
By John Yohalem
Heartbeat is, after all, a company that loves to tinker.
By Joel Rozen
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?
By Joel Rozen
An astute double-feature exposes all the complexities of female suffering embedded within two canonical works.
