SPRING 2026, “VANESSA” opera by Barber, HeartBeat Opera, Musical Director Jacob Ashworth, Adaptation Jacob Ashworth, New Arrangement Daniel Schlosberg, Director R.B. Schlather, SET JIAYING ZHANG, costume terese wadden, light Yuki Link, hair and makeup Consultant Matia Emsellem, Fight/Intimacy/Movement Skye Bronfenbrenner, Production stage manager Brenna Comeau, Producer Shannon Sindelar, production photography Maria Baranova
THE NEW YORK TIMES’ BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPERA OF 2026
“R.B. Schlather’s radically minimal treatment…had a clarifying focus i’ve never encountered. [IT] leaned into the nightmarish purgatory and near-campy melodrama with expressionist shadow play, touches of noir and gripping immediacy.”
— Joshua Barone, The New York Times
