Archive for May 2013

Tell-Tale Heart | Mark Bringelson, Jason Switzer, John Matthew Myers, Ashley Knight, Danielle Bond, Robin Buck Photo by Keith Ian Polakoff.

Sunday, May 12: Review by David Gregson of May 11 performance.

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“Vincent Price will be turning in his grave!”

This provocative warning made by a Long Beach Opera supporter (and I confess to being one myself) was supposed to prepare my nerves for a transgressive Edgar Allan Poe experience, the US premiere of Stewart Copeland’s Tell-Tale Heart, Long Beach Opera’s latest daring effort which opened as part of a double bill with Michael Gordon’s Van Gogh in a four-performance run which began Sunday night at the Long Beach Expo building on Atlantic Boulevard. Read More