Heartbeat Opera Brings Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” to North Adams
Williamstown, MA — New York’s Heartbeat Opera—the indie company whose daring, stripped down takes of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by The New Yorker and “revelatory” by The Los Angeles Times—presents a new adaptation of Samuel Barber’s rarely mounted opera VANESSA at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), directed by the visionary R.B. Schlather. This marks the first-ever…