Long Beach Opera announced today that in addition to two performances of Anthony Davis’ Pulitzer Prize winning opera The Central Park Five that they premiered in 2019, LBO will create the world premiere recording of the piece, which will be released this fall. Additionally, LBO released details about two summer programs that will occur on subsequent weekends in July; LBO: ON DISPLAY and the inaugural Long Beach Opera Film Festival. Tickets and information at longbeachopera.org.
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 imprisonment.
Heartbeat Opera describes its mission as follows: From the drama at the core of each work, Heartbeat Opera grows vivid theatrical worlds through revelatory adaptations, radical rearrangements, and ingenious design. 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.
Heartbeat s program included: the traditional Spirituals There s a Balm in Gilead, and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Harry T. Burleigh s Lovely Dark and Lonely One, Malcolm s aria from X,