Dane Urban

After last season's much-buzzed-about Butterfly and Carmen, HEARTBEAT OPERA-the daring young company whose unconventional orchestrations and stagings of classic operas have been called 'a radical endeavor' by Alex Ross in The New Yorker-returns to Baruch Performing Arts Center with its fourth annual Spring Festival May 2-13, 2018. Heartbeat will premiere adaptations of two operatic masterpieces, both radically staged, trimmed down and re-orchestrated: Mozart's DON GIOVANNI and Beethoven's FIDELIO. 

When put to the test the human will to survive reveals its strength. I LOVE YOU: A Story of Forbidden Love, is a timely story presented as part of 2017's Sydney Fringe Festival.  A fictional story set in Armenia 1919,  consists of a sense of history, a social and political focus and a strong effeminate voice; the third theatre show written and produced by aspiring Sydney playwright Sage Godrei.