Tag Archives: Heartbeat Opera

This isn't your great-great-grandparents' Massenet. But I'll bet they would have liked it, and I'll bet even opera purists and snobs will appreciate what Heartbeat and Co. have done here.

To "get" a parody, you have to be familiar with what's being parodied, right?Usually. The annual drag shows from Heartbeat Opera are exceptions – hilarious, harmonious, happy ones. This year's extravaganza will cruise on camp, costumes, and kookiness right into your crooked little heart.

"We couldn't do this show in some places. Even opera, with some people not wanting to perform 'The Marriage of Figaro!'…But we're thankful that we're here in New York and for the moment we're able to do this in its full glory."

A gripping, innovative production, reduced to two hours but still full of Gounod's glorious music, boasts a terrific cast and smart, sinewy staging.

A woman changes her mind about wanting to have a baby, but are climate change worries the true cause? An intense new one-act opera dives into the maelstrom.

Rife with stagecraft, physicality, and superb singing and acting, 'Lady M' is a mesmerizing stripped-down re-imagining of Verdi's opera 'Macbeth.'

Gleaming voices, exceptional acting, and Puccini's endlessly wonderful music make this a worthy production regardless of the trimming-down and the conceptual trappings.

A stunning adaptation that addresses America's 21st-century racial reckoning.

A first-rate, meticulously crafted operatic holiday revue with glorious singing and dancing, just what we need in dark times.

In Heartbeat Opera's smartly staged and beautifully sung reimagining of Der Freischütz, the mystical story Weber adapted from a supernatural folk tale resettles comfortably in the American South.