SALOME
Tue, Feb 04
|Brooklyn
A brand new adaptation, sung in English. Music by Richard Strauss Libretto from Hedwig Lachmann’s translation of the French play by Oscar Wilde. English singing translation by Tom Hammond, used by permission of English National Opera Benevolent Fund.
Time & Location
Feb 04, 2025, 7:00 PM – Feb 16, 2025, 11:00 PM
Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA
About the event
Co-Adapted by Jacob Ashworth and Elizabeth Dinkova
Newly Arranged by Dan Schlosberg
Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova
Music Directed by Jacob Ashworth Heartbeat Opera's radical take on an iconic work
What do we do while we wait for the world to end? In a society at the height of decadence, where pop stars sing for despots’ birthdays, and even fools can be billionaires, it’s not only the prophets who are kept in cages. There’s one for each of us. In a decaying palace on the edge of the world, everyone is yearning for something to believe in. Sung in English to recapture the shock of Strauss’s scandalous classic, Heartbeat’s intimate new take features a fresh 10-instrument orchestration by Dan Schlosberg of one of Opera’s most extravagant scores. CAST
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