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“What’s really great about these shows is that while we’re having all this fun, we get to do a real Handel aria with all of the love and integrity and everything,” Schlosberg said. Homer’s onstage odyssey will also include arias from Monteverdi, Handel, Offenbach and Vivaldi, which not only creates an opportunity for virtuosity but offers the audience a fresh, timely interpretation of an occasional baroque masterpiece. Sketch of Medusa’s costume for Heartbeat Opera’s Dragus Maximus by Miodrag Guberinic. Bringing together New York’s drag performers and opera singers together, it always promises to be a raucous, Dionysian party, but Heard assures that it’s “more than an escape.”

But its collaborative spirit is fully realized in its annual Halloween Drag Extravaganzas, of which Dragus Maximus is the fifth. The company is known for its timely adaptations of classics and forward-thinking rearrangements, thanks to the musical direction of Dan Schlosberg and Jacob Ashworth. It’s not unusual for Heartbeat Opera to infuse a deeper message in its visually and musically stunning operas.

Subscribe to Observer’s Arts Newsletter Heartbeat Opera’s All the World’s a Drag. Under the command of Aphrodite, who’s voiced live by Peregrine Heard and performed by Wo Chan (the drag superstar known as Pearl Harbor) Homer listens to the mythic women when they sing of love, loss and betrayal, and he believes them. The play centers around Homer, played by Drae Campbell, whose quest for love in 2018 takes him on an odyssey through ancient myth. Medusa, played by Soprano Jamilyn Manning-White, is just one of the mythical women that get to tell their side of the story in Dragus Maximus.

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