YIVO Yiddish Folksong Festival Returns with Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
by A.A. Cristi
- Mar 31, 2022
This May, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is hosting Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today, a music festival featuring four concerts which cross stylistic boundaries between classical music and folk performance. The festival features the premiere of more than twelve newly commissioned classical works alongside a wealth of lesser-known compositions from YIVO's archival collections, and performances by over thirty musical artists.
Heartbeat Opera Announces The World Premiere Of QUANDO At The McKittrick Hotel, 4/7�"4/9
by A.A. Cristi
- Mar 9, 2022
New York's radical indie opera company HEARTBEAT OPERA announces its newest project: the world premiere of QUANDO at the legendary McKittrick Hotel in Chelsea (home of the transportive Sleep No More). A co-production with Long Beach Opera, QUANDO is produced by Heartbeat's newly-appointed Associate Artistic Director Derrell Acon.
The McKittrick Hotel to Present New York Premiere of Heartbeat Opera's QUANDO
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 9, 2022
The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announced today that the New York premiere of Heartbeat Opera’s QUANDO, a short film and live performance mashup, will play a strictly limited engagement starting on April 7. Just five performances will be offered in The Club Car through April 9.
BWW Interview: Heartbeat Opera's Ethan Heard Brings FIDELIO To Current Times
by Gil Kaan
- Feb 22, 2022
Heartbeat Opera’s tour of FIDELIO lands at The Broad Stage February 26th and 27th. Heartbeat’s artistic director Ethan Heard directs Beethoven’s 1814 masterpiece re-imagined and re-orchestrated for the era of Black Lives Matter. I had the chance to throw a few queries out to Ethan on his timely and unique project that he also adapted and co-wrote.
BWW Review: FIDELIO at the Met �" Not THE MET �" Proves Beethoven's Only Opera Is No Museum Piece
by Richard Sasanow
- Feb 16, 2022
It’s no secret that many of the standard repertoire’s most famous operas had troubled premieres but Beethoven’s FIDELIO had more than its share. Thanks to the efforts of Heartbeat Opera, which performed its revised version at New York’s Met Museum this past weekend (before a short tour), we can see the forest for the trees, with many of the work’s problems dealt with in a surprisingly effective way and the story brought up to date without destroying its integrity.
Two River Theater Presents Bold New Translation Of Chekhov's THREE SISTERS
by A.A. Cristi
- Dec 16, 2021
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Two River Theater Playwright-in-Residence Madeleine George (Hurricane Diane, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England) collaborates with director Sara Holdren (Twelfth Night) to create a new translation of Chekhov's classic play about big souls trapped in tiny boxes. Stuck in the Russian countryside at the turn of the 20th century, sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina dream of futures in the wake of their father's death and a changing Russia.
The Frederick R. Koch Foundation Announces THE TOWNHOUSE SERIES Concerts
by Gigi Gervais
- Dec 11, 2021
The Frederick R. Koch Foundationhas announced the Townhouse Series, a new set of filmed concerts curated by Daniel Schlosberg and produced by ffflypaper, which will stream for free beginning December 13, 2021, at 3:00 PM EST on the FRK Foundation’s YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook sites.
Heartbeat Opera Announces Four-City Tour of FIDELIO
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Dec 7, 2021
Heartbeat Opera will mount a four-city tour of its powerful 2018 adaptation of Beethoven's masterpiece, FIDELIO, which Heartbeat artistic director Ethan Heard conceived for the era of Black Lives Matter. The tour begins at home in NY's Metropolitan Museum on February 10, 12, and 13, 2022.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces the New MetLiveArts Season of Performances
by A.A. Cristi
- Aug 27, 2021
The Met today announced a new season of live performances with in-person audiences beginning fall 2021 and a new Artist in Residence, the acclaimed dancer and choreographer Bijayini Satpathy. Beginning in October, performances will once again take place in galleries throughout the Museum, as well as in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, and will feature MetLiveArts commissions and leading international musicians and composers.
Heartbeat Opera Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Aug 10, 2021
HEARTBEAT OPERA will return to the in-person stage for its eighth season this year. Heartbeat's 2021-22 season kicks off in September with a free outdoor screening of BREATHING FREE, their visual album that connects Beethoven's Fidelio with the work of Black composers and lyricists such as Harry T. Burleigh, Langston Hughes, and Anthony Davis.
BWW Review: BREATHING FREE at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin
- Feb 11, 2021
On the evening of February 10, 2021, The Broad Stage presented Breathing Free, an auditory and visual online love letter to freedom produced by Heartbeat opera to tell the stories of those who who have experienced various versions of its absence. Through an inquisitive collaborative process with a diverse community of artists, Heartbeat breaks down traditional barriers to reimagine opera for artists and audiences of the twenty-first century.
Broad Stage Panels Announced For BREATHING FREE
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 3, 2021
HEARTBEAT OPERA announces the West Coast Premiere of Breathing Free, an ambitious and “gripplingly produced” (Boston Globe) visual album dedicated to the celebration of Black artistic voices, presented by The Broad Stage online Wednesday, February 10 at 7pm (Pacific) and Saturday, February 13 at 7pm (Pacific). For tickets and information visit thebroadstage.org.
The Broad Stage Presents HEARTBEAT OPERA
by Stephi Wild
- Jan 20, 2021
HEARTBEAT OPERA announces the West Coast Premiere of Breathing Free, an ambitious filmed song cycle dedicated to the celebration of Black artistic voices, presented by The Broad Stage online Wednesday, February 10 at 7pm (Pacific) and Saturday, February 13 at 7pm (Pacific). For tickets and information visit thebroadstage.org.
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