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Heartbeat Opera's Faust: an economical deal with the devil

John Taylor Ward (Méphistophélès) and Orson Van Gay II (Faust) © Andrew Boyle
Hot on the heels of their modern-day take on Salome, Heartbeat Opera returns with another economical but inventive staging of a classic. 
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Shockingly good fun: Heartbeat Opera’s Salome

Nathaniel Sullivan (Jochanaan) and Summer Hassan (Salome) © Andrew Boyle
Heartbeat Opera’s chamber Salome marries musical ingenuity with dramatic clarity at The Space at Irondale. 
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Queer longing: Heartbeat Opera's bold Onegin

Roy Hage (Lensky) and Edwin Joseph (Onegin) © Russ Rowland
A strong young cast heads Dustin Wills' reimagining of Eugene Onegin for New York's most innovative opera company, Heartbeat Opera. 
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A powerful, imperfect Tosca relocated to Tehran

Anush Avetisyan (Tosca) and Chad Kranak (Cavaradossi) © Russ Rowland

Last year, the upstart Heartbeat Opera impressively reimagined Fidelio for the Black Lives Matter era. Their new Tosca places the tragic opera about an opera singer in a land where women have been banned from singing. 

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LvB meets #BLM in Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio

Heartbeat’s Fidelio is a dramatic reworking in every sense of the term. It’s bold and unflinching, borrowing from Beethoven to tell tales too horrible to tell. 

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