Scrappy opera company Heartbeat thrives by reimagining the classics

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Scrappy opera company Heartbeat thrives by reimagining the classics

NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Schlosberg remembers the day 11 years ago when his upstart opera company put on its first performance — in a yoga studio before an audience of 30 people.“We did Kurt Weill’s ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ accompanied by an upright piano that we got for free on Craigslist and a violin,” recalled Schlosberg, the company’s music director and one of its founders.They named their company Heartbeat Opera, “from the idea that singers would be feet away from you,” Schlosberg said. “And so you would be experiencing their voices at arm’s length and that would make a ..