The World House Choir a multicultural and intergenerational musical group whose decade-long repertoire has embraced songs that put forward messages of unity, solidarity and social justice will perform its 10-year anniversary concerts Thursday–Saturday, Sept. 21–23, at the Foundry Theater.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. A touring production of Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio has just ended its four-city tour in February, with stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Mondavi Center at the University of California-Davis, the Scottsdale Center for the Performi.
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,