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,