Organization

Conductor

Jacob Ashworth

Daniel Schlosberg

Stage director

Ethan Heard

Choreographer

Emma Crane Jaster

Lighting designer

Kristie Smith

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Jamilyn Manning-White

Contralto

Sara Couden

Soprano

Nicolette Mavroleon

Heartbeat Opera

Dragus Maximus

New York City

United States

Roulette

Dragus Maximus: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

Relive the Greco-Roman glory of Heartbeat Opera's Fifth Annual Drag Extravaganza DRAGUS MAXIMUS!

Featuring the siren songs of Monteverdi, Handel, and Offenbach, plus the world premiere of "Feed the Snakes" by Vavrek and Schlosberg.

Presented at Roulette, Brooklyn
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All roads lead to Rome… and to Heartbeat Opera’s fifth annual Halloween Drag Extravaganza! “New York’s singularly unconventional” (Opera News) indie opera company invites you to grab your golden fleece and catch a chariot down to Brooklyn’s Colosseum (aka Roulette) for an operatic, Greco-Roman orgy of gorgeous gladiators and glam goddesses. Join Homer and Sappho in a Herculean quest to Hades and back -- featuring the siren songs of Monteverdi, Handel, and Offenbach, plus a brand new number by Vavrek and Schlosberg. Come in costumes to make Cleopatra drool. When in Rome…

“HEARTBEAT OPERA’S ‘DRAGUS MAXIMUS’ REIMAGINES A CLASSIC GREEK MYTH AS A RAUCOUS QUEER ODYSSEY”

English

Dragus Maximus by Various, From (2018/2018), Directed by Ethan Heard,, Conductor Jacob Ashworth, Daniel Schlosberg, Roulette, New York City, United States

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