Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning first full-length opera, was commissioned by and premiered at the “old” Metropolitan Opera, in 1958. For all its virtues, a new, 2025 live ...
The production arrives in New York following a critically praised run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where it marked the first opera staged in the festival’s 70-year history. The opera features ...
Heartbeat Opera’s 100-minute adaptation of Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” (1958) by company artistic director Jacob Ashworth, first presented last summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, came off as a ...