Trailer: Heartbeat Opera's TOSCA

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A new 100-minute adaptation of Puccini's classic.
Sung in English. Subtitles in Farsi and English.
Heartbeat Opera's Spring Festival April 11-23 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa
Co-Adapted by Shadi G. & Jacob Ashworth
Directed by Shadi G.
Newly Arranged by Daniel Schlosberg
Music Directed by Jacob Ashworth
Puccini’s iconic story of love and revolution becomes daringly real when a troupe of singers living in an unnamed religious regime decide to risk all to perform the uncensored version of Tosca - in which corrupt officials are murdered, revolutionaries are executed, and, most importantly, a female heroine interrupts the cycle of violence. They race to tell their whole story before the authoritarian forces lurking in the wings press in. This radical adaptation asks what it means to make art where freedom of expression does not exist - where even love is banned from the stage.
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