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

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. 

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. 

In einer Welt, in der Operninszenierungen oft ins Abstrakte abgleiten, bietet die „Tosca“ der Wiener Staatsoper eine erfrischende Rückkehr zur Tradition – und Anna Netrebko liefert eine großartige Darbietung.