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Louisa Proske’s Met debut will be ‘Macbeth,’ ‘a terrifying tale for terrifying times’ – WTOP News
The production marks her first Met assignment after Heartbeat Opera and includes a live movie-theater broadcast of the Oct. 17 matinee.
- On Tuesday, Louisa Proske makes her Metropolitan Opera House debut directing Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth, with Met music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting the production's 10 performances.
- Proske co-founded Heartbeat Opera in 2014, developing a reputation for reimagining classics on a shoestring budget. Met general manager Peter Gelb said, "I was aware of Louisa's success at Heartbeat, and she had been on my radar."
- Describing the production, Proske portrays Macbeth as a society in collapse, with witches acting as "greedy voyeurs of the Macbeths' descent into crime and bloodshed." Baritone Quinn Kelsey heads the cast alongside soprano Lise Davidsen and tenor Freddie De Tommaso.
- Collaboration defined the process; Proske recruited previous partners Montana Levi Blanco and Jon Bausor despite a tight deadline. Heartbeat artistic director Jacob Ashworth addressed perceptions, saying some fans ask, "But isn't the Met the enemy?"
- Running for 10 performances, the production includes an Oct. 17 matinee broadcast globally to movie theaters. Proske aims to bring Heartbeat's "exact, inventive, visceral storytelling" to the Met's larger stage.
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Louisa Proske’s Met debut will be ‘Macbeth,’ ‘a terrifying tale for terrifying times’ – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s less than a 40-minute walk uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House from where Heartbeat Opera got its humble start in a yoga studio. But for Louisa Proske, it’s been an artistic journey years in the making. Proske, who co-founded the scrappy company in 2014, is making her Met debut in...
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Louisa Proske’s Met debut will be ‘Macbeth,’ ‘a terrifying tale for terrifying times’
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s less than a 40-minute walk uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House from where Heartbeat Opera got its humble start in a yoga studio. But for Louisa Proske, it’s been an artistic journey years in the making.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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