Heard, Ethan

Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter

Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” is hardly a fixed text. He wrote several possible overtures for it and reworked the score substantially over the course of a decade. But its meaning never changed: the heroism to be found in devotion, love and freedom in the face of injustice. In 2018, the daring and imaginative Heartbeat Opera […]