LvB meets #BLM in Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio

Par Kurt Gottschalk, 14 février 2022

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

Critique faite à Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, New York, le 10 février 2022

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

Heartbeat Opera

Daniel Schlosberg, Direction

Ethan Heard, Mise en scène

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.

****1

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.

*****

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.

***11

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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L’indémodable Flûte enchantée de Barrie Kosky à l'Opéra de Lille

Romain Daroles, 11th May

Créée par Barrie Kosky en 2012 au Komische Oper de Berlin, cette réjouissante production n'a pas pris une ride, d'autant que les chanteurs se glissent avec panache et dextérité dans son dispositif.

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La Lucie superlative de Sabine Devieilhe à l'Opéra-Comique

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 30th April

Présentée pour la première fois à Paris depuis 2002, la version française de l'opéra de Donizetti bénéficie d'une exceptionnelle Sabine Devieilhe dans le rôle-titre. Le point noir est la mise en scène d'Evgeny Titov.

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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.