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

Hot on the heels of their modern-day take on Salome, Heartbeat Opera returns with another economical but inventive staging of a classic.
Shockingly good fun: Heartbeat Opera’s Salome

Heartbeat Opera’s chamber Salome marries musical ingenuity with dramatic clarity at The Space at Irondale.
Queer longing: Heartbeat Opera's bold Onegin

A strong young cast heads Dustin Wills' reimagining of Eugene Onegin for New York's most innovative opera company, Heartbeat Opera.
A powerful, imperfect Tosca relocated to Tehran

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.
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.
