
These productions have been called "urgent and powerful" ( The New York Times), "relevant and heartbreaking" ( The New Yorker), and "incisive and inspired" ( Opera News). With Heartbeat, he has directed Breathing Free: a visual album and Lady M: an online fantasia of Verdi’s Macbeth (created during quarantine), La Susanna (Kennedy Center and BAM), Fidelio, Butterfly, Dido & Aeneas, Kafka-Fragments, six drag extravaganzas, and a performance on the High Line.


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Ethan Heard is Co-Founder & Artistic Director of Heartbeat Opera, "a categorically imaginative company, which has made its name with vital reshapings of repertory operas" ( The New Yorker).
