LvB meets #BLM in Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio

Von Kurt Gottschalk, 14 Februar 2022

Laden, bitte warten...

“the Prisoner’s Chorus... sung by inmate choirs from six penal institutions across the country”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, New York City, am 10 Februar 2022

Beethoven, Fidelio (Adapted and arranged by Ethan Heard and Daniel Schlosberg)

Heartbeat Opera

Daniel Schlosberg, Musikalische Leitung

Ethan Heard, Regie

Curtis Bannister, Florestan

Kelly Griffin, Leonore

Corey McKern, Don Pizarro

Derrell Acon, Rocco

Victoria Lawal, Marzelline

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

Kurt Gottschalk, 15th May

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

Kevin W Ng, 11th February

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

Kevin W Ng, 4th April

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

Kurt Gottschalk, 11th April

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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Frontalangriff auf die Ohren: Verdis Stiffelio am Theater an der Wien

Norman Schwarze, 13th May

Vasily Barkhatov liefert mit seiner Inszenierung eine nüchterne Lesart von Verdis Stiffelio, aber vor allem wird es laut.

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Gluck Festspiele holen faszinierend Paride ed Elena aus dem Abseits

Michael Vieth, 10th May

Die Internationalen Gluck Festspiele in der Metropolregion Nürnberg tragen 2026 das Motto Amor & Psyche. Mit der konzertanten Aufführung der faktisch vergessenen Reformoper Paride ed Elena gelang dem künstlerischen Leiter Michael Hofstetter ein echter Coup.

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Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a journalist and author based in New York City. His writings on contemporary and classical music, jazz and improvisation have been published in outlets throughout Europe and America and he has two volumes of short fiction to his name. He produced and hosted the Miniature Minotaurs radio programme on WFMU and currently hosts Afternoon New Music on WKCR.