Name: Faust
Start: 2025-05-13T00:00:00
Location: Baruch College

Brandon Bell

Eliza Bonet

AddieRose Brown

Alex DeSocio

Orson  Van Gay II

John Taylor Ward

Rachel Kobernick

Rowan Magee

Emma Wiseman

Yichen Zhou

Elivia Bovenzi Blitz

Sara Holdren

Heartbeat Opera

Rescued from her fate in a convent, Manon finds herself pulled between two suitors: Power and True Love. Opera’s original it-girl deftly invents and reinvents herself, transforming her circumstances even when the stakes turn deadly. Obie Award-winning director Rory Pelsue (NYT Critic's Pick The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, Pulitzer Prize finalist Circle Jerk) and Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth premiere a saucy English-language book and lyrics for this musical theatre revamp of Massenet's masterpiece. Dan Schlosberg channels Richard Rodgers and Rococo in his luscious new arrangements, and a glittering cast of opera-savvy Broadway voices bring an entirely new sound to Heartbeat Opera.

Manon!

The Space at Irondale

Samuel Barber is one of the most celebrated American composers of the twentieth century, and VANESSA was a hit upon arrival at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958, subsequently winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music. It could have remained in the canon as one of the great American operas, but its unique brand of gothic creep and fiercely emotional music clashed with the overly-academic tastes of the time. Over the following decades, the piece receded into near-obscurity. Together with director R.B. Schlather, Heartbeat Opera strips away the gewgaws and doilies of its original imaginings, allowing the riveting extremes of these palpable characters to break through. This reinvention, adapted by Jacob Ashworth with a new arrangement by Dan Schlosberg, pares the work down to five singers, hopelessly trapped inside their own circumstances.

Vanessa

Baruch College

A lonely scholar makes a bargain with the devil, and all hell breaks loose. Heartbeat Opera’s distinctly American adaptation tells the story of Faust and Marguerite — a man who wildly misuses his regained youth, a young woman whose potential for life and love is cut tragically short, and the ravaged community left in their wake. Retelling one of most popular operas of all time, we ask what happens when the soul hasn’t evolved along with the mind? When voracious ego rules us, and reckless forward motion is all?

EPSG:4326

Faust