HEARTBEAT OPERA IN THE NEWS
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“music that is scintillating, transparent and often excruciatingly beautiful”
- Rick Perdian, Seen and Heard International
“To say that Dustin Wills is a genius might very well be an understatement”
- Tony Marinelli, TheaterScene.Net
“Dan Schlosberg has been the musical soul of Heartbeat since its founding”
- Joshua Barone, The New York Times
“The sound of the four-member ensemble ranges from delicate transparency to electronic roar”
- Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
“a fresh and eloquent new reading of a beloved classic”
- Sylvia Korman, Parterre Box
“an edge-of-your seat drama”
- Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
“Heartbeat Opera continues to impress and to grow into a wider range of work”
- Jon Sobel, BlogCritics
“it’s different and unexpected, but it really works”
- Kevin W Ng, Bachtrack
“Heartbeat Opera, since its inception a decade ago as New York’s most excitingly innovative and inclusive opera companY”
- David Shengold, Gay City News
“Heartbeat Opera knows how to party.”
—Max Keller, Parterre Box
“Heartbeat Opera, monarchs of NYC’s scrappy indie opera scene.”
—Emery Kerekes, All Ears
“Heartbeat Opera [is] an enterprise that, while small and still young, has already contributed more to opera’s vitality than most major American companies.”
—Josh Barone, The New York Times
“Relevant and worthwhile. What’s so pleasing about Heartbeat’s Butterfly is how well its artistic intentions dovetail with its limited means.”
—Russell Plat, The New Yorker
“A categorically imaginative company, [Heartbeat] has made its name with vital reshapings of repertory operas. A radical endeavor.”
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker
“Icy vodka shots of opera instead of ladles of cream sauce … stripping away centuries of expectations and tradition.”
—Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times
“Pioneers ... reformatting the opera experience from the grand to the deliberately intimate. Ingenious.”
—Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
“Urgent, rigorous, and young, Heartbeat Opera poses another beacon of hope against New York City’s gloomy operatic landscape.”
—Patrick Clement James, Parterre Box
“Every Heartbeat event feels like a happening”
—Joanne Sydney Lessner, Opera News
“Stunning. Captivating. Eye-popping. The entire evening was a free-wheeling, fun-loving operatic romp, with tongue firmly in cheek but with beautiful music filling the air.”
—Feast of Music
"A Mozart lover's wet dream ... Heartbeat's Giovanni successfully bucks tradition ... I'd given up hope that Giovanni's plot could surprise me."
—Schmopera
“A thoughtful production that did full justice to a forgotten work. Heard gave new punch to an old story of female abuse at the hands of men.”
—Anne Midgette, The Washington Post
“Bold and vivid. This small, adventurous company strives to make opera a visceral, intimate and immediate ‘encounter.’”
—Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times