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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Silverman

Scrappy opera company Heartbeat thrives by reimagining the classics

Opera-Heartbeat - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Dan Schlosberg remembers the day 11 years ago when his upstart opera company put on its first performance — in a yoga studio before an audience of 30 people.

“We did Kurt Weill’s ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ accompanied by an upright piano that we got for free on Craigslist and a violin,” recalled Schlosberg, the company’s music director and one of its founders.

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