INSPIRING A LOVE OF OPERA

Today I attended two operas produced by New York City's three-year-old Heartbeat Opera: MADAMA BUTTERFLY and CARMEN. I believe that these were the most artistically satisfying performances of these works I can ever remember attending.

While I glanced at several other reviews, I purposely did not read through them before writing this so as not to be unduly influenced.  I indeed was so inspired by these performances, that this is Opera Theatre of Montclair's FIRST blog en...