Heartbeat Opera: Spring Festival 2017 — Butterfly & Carmen

Butterfly: Experience Puccini’s classic romance like you’ve never seen it before. This dazzling new adaptation explodes the legacy of Western fetishization of the tragic geisha Madama Butterfly. Heartbeat Opera brings opera into the 21st century, creating new adaptations and orchestrations and designing visceral encounters between artists and audiences. This production features a new arrangement by Heartbeat Opera’s co-artistic director Daniel Schlosberg.

Carmen: Experience a radical new adaptation of this classic opera. Heartbeat Opera strips down Bizet’s explosive masterpiece to its four central characters. Heartbeat Opera brings opera into the 21st century, creating new adaptations and orchestrations and designing visceral encounters between artists and audiences. This production features a new arrangement by Heartbeat Opera’s co-artistic director Daniel Schlosberg.