Directed with gangsterish overtones by Mark Ravenhill, the tempered musical weight of this lean production of the Strauss classic brings greater focus on the roles’ contrasting dramas ...
Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet. By Zachary Woolfe Strauss’s “Salome” begins with a swiftly slithering clarinet ...
Heartbeat Opera, now in its 11th season, radically rethinks classics, and its new “Salome,” adapted by Jacob Ashworth and Elizabeth Dinkova and playing at the Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, is no ...