Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Faust’ Finds the Humanity (and Humor) in the Hellish Sara Holdren’s production shifts the focus to the women in Faust’s wake. By Gabrielle Ferrari
Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Salome’ Dares Us to Look Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the female one. By Gabrielle Ferrari
Heartbeat Opera’s ‘The Extinctionist’ Offers Commentary With Little Complexity The production’s sanctimonious libretto and ill-conceived puppet baby led to an evening more frustrating than triumphant. By Gabrielle Ferrari
Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Dragus Maximus’ Reimagines a Classic Greek Myth as a Raucous Queer Odyssey By Mary von Aue