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Violinist, Educator, & Contractor in NYC
🎓@columbia / @juilliardschool BA/MM
🎓@thegraduatecenter DMA
🎨 co-director @sonoracollective

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For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: MANON! Original Cast Recording

“Heartbeat Opera [is] an enterprise that, while small and still young, has already contributed more to opera’s vitality than most major American companies.”
-Joshua Barone, The New York Times

The debut music release from Heartbeat Opera, a group that “provides vigorous proof that opera is nowhere near dead” (Classical Voice North America), MANON! transforms Jules Massenet’s classic tale of love, glamour, and reinvention into a dazzling new musical theatre-infused adaptation. Featuring a saucy new English-language libretto by Jacob Ashworth and Obie Award winner Rory Pelsue and luscious new arrangements by Dan Schlosberg, who conducts from the piano, this Original Cast Recording preserves Heartbeat Opera’s “rampantly inventive” (The New York Times) and “categorically imaginative” (The New Yorker) approach to classic opera for the first time ever. Recorded with Lexicon Classics at the legendary Power Station studios, MANON! is available now!

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First looks at the CD design for Something’s Coming! ꩜
You can pre-order your signed or unsigned copy ahead of the album release on November 13th at the link in my bio.
CD layout design: Sean House
Photography: @christophrboyle
Styling: @karaerwincreative
Makeup: @yuuivision

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✨ FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION ✨

BEST OPERA RECORDING
🎭 MANON! (Original Cast Recording)
Heartbeat Opera | Lexicon Classics

A bold, radically reimagined take on Massenet’s classic, MANON! brings opera and musical theatre together in a vibrant new adaptation with a phenomenal cast and fresh English-language book and lyrics.

🎙️ CAST
Emma Grimsley: Manon
Matt Dengler: Chevalier des Grieux
Glenn Seven Allen: Guillot
Jamari Darling: Lescaut
Justin Lee Miller: Count des Grieux
Kathryn McCreary: Pousette
Natalie Walker: Javotte

🎼 CREATIVE TEAM
Dan Schlosberg: Arranger, Conductor & Piano/Keyboard
Jacob Ashworth: Libretto & Producer
Rory Pelsue: Libretto & Original Production Director
Jonathan Estabrooks:Producer
Christian De Gré Cárdenas: Co-Producer

Recorded at Power Station at Berklee NYC, MANON! captures Heartbeat Opera’s fearless approach to reinventing classic opera for today.

🎧 Listen & consider MANON! for Best Opera Recording.

#FYC #GRAMMYs #GRAMMYConsideration #BestOperaRecording #HeartbeatOpera

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OUR FIRST-EVER CAST RECORDING IS OUT TODAY 😭

From Jacob Ashworth, Co-adaptor and Heartbeat Opera Artistic Director:
“For years Heartbeat has wanted to turn one of our signature adaptations of classic operas into an album, and MANON!, with its punchy English lyrics, crystal clear dialogues, revolutionary approach to casting, irresistible orchestrations, and kinetic, fast-paced adaptation, is the perfect show where all the bravest and boldest ideas can come across in the sound alone. What arrives here is both a Broadway-style Original Cast Recording that captures the birth of a new work and a double-disc Complete Opera Recording of a classic that we hope goes down in the annals of history toe-to-toe with all the great Manons ever recorded.

When director Rory Pelsue and I set out to adapt this work and create a whole new book and lyrics, the influence of Golden Age musical theatre came fast. I knew that a Heartbeat audience encountering French opéra comique would crave not only literal translation, but a kind of whole cloth cultural translation. Rory popped the question: What if we hired Musical Theatre singers? Wouldn’t that be closer to how they originally performed this piece? Intrigued, we set up a workshop to test the concept. The result was so affecting and illuminating that we knew right then the essence of our adaptation would be to discover the Golden Age musical lurking within Massenet’s masterpiece and find the extraordinary artists capable of pulling it off.”

Available wherever you listen to music.

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MANON! IS HERE. 🎭🔥

Heartbeat Opera’s electrifying, Broadway-infused reimagining of Massenet’s Manon is now an album.

Recorded live from the original cast at Power Station Studios, MANON! captures the energy, drama, humor, and unforgettable performances of Heartbeat Opera’s acclaimed production conducted by Dan Schlosberg with Emma Grimsley, Matt Dengler, Glenn Seven Allen, Jamari Darling, Justin Lee Miller, Katie McCreary, and Natalie Walker.

It is produced.by GRAMMY Nominee Jonathan Estabrooks and Jacob Ashworth with a new English libretto from Rory Perdue and Jacob Ashworth. It is co-produced by Christian De Gré Cárdenas, engineered by Chris Benham and mixed and mastered by 3x GRAMMY nominee Jennifer Nulsen.

🎶 MANON! Original Cast Recording
✨ Out TODAY via Lexicon Classics

If you saw it live, relive the magic. If you missed it, now you can experience MANON! wherever you listen to music.

🎧 Listen now. Link in bio.

#HeartbeatOpera #MANON #ManonTheMusical #CastRecording #Opera MusicalTheatre OperaReimagined NewOpera LexiconClassics

The album is Heartbeat Opera’s first full-length cast recording, released today, August 14, following two singles already available on streaming services.

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The MANON! Original Cast Recording is out everywhere TOMORROW on @lexiconclassics. 💗

Last month, we hosted an extra special listening party with our cast, crew, band, producers, and team so they could hear it before anyone else. We can’t wait to share it with you.

The debut music release from Heartbeat Opera, a group that has “already contributed more to opera’s vitality than most major American companies” (The New York Times), MANON! transforms Jules Massenet’s classic tale of love, glamour, and reinvention into a dazzling new musical theatre-infused adaptation. Featuring a saucy new English-language book and lyrics by Jacob Ashworth and Obie Award winner Rory Pelsue and luscious new arrangements by Dan Schlosberg, who conducts from the piano, this Original Cast Recording preserves Heartbeat Opera’s “categorically imaginative and radical” (The New Yorker) approach to classic opera for the first time ever.

#heartbeatopera #newmusicfriday #opera #musicaltheatre #castrecording

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🎬 The Making of MANON!: PART 1

What happens when you take one of opera’s most iconic love stories and completely reimagine it?

For Heartbeat Opera, MANON! began with a question: What if Massenet’s classic could speak directly to us today?

A new English libretto. Fresh arrangements. A bold theatrical vision. And a cast ready to throw themselves into it.

This is where MANON! began.

🎧 Available August 14th on all streaming platforms!

#HeartbeatOpera #MANON #Opera #OriginalCastRecording

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“When I Close My Eyes (The Dream)” from MANON! is out now wherever you listen to music, and the full performance video is now available on YouTube!

Stream two tracks from the MANON! Original Cast Recording, coming August 14 from Lexicon Classics, at the link in our bio.

Heartbeat Opera’s MANON! takes Jules Massenet’s classic opera comique and transforms it into a dazzling musical theatre-infused reinvention, with a saucy new book and lyrics by Rory Pelsue and Jacob Ashworth and luscious new orchestrations by Dan Schlosberg. A glittering cast of opera-savvy Broadway voices, including Matt Dengler and Emma Grimsley (featured here), bring this thrilling adaptation to life on Heartbeat’s first-ever cast recording.

#opera #musicaltheatre #operanyc #newmusicfriday #classicalmusic

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✨ NEW MUSIC FRIDAY ✨

Love, hope, and a dream worth singing about... one of opera’s most beautiful arias reimagined. ❤️

Our latest single, “When I Close My Eyes (The Dream),” is out now from Heartbeat Opera’s MANON! Original Cast Recording, arriving August 14 on Lexicon Classics.

Often called “Le Rêve” (The Dream) in the original opera, this unforgettable aria features Matt Dengler as the Chevalier Des Grieux, imagining a simple, peaceful future with Manon—a tender vision of love far removed from the glamour and temptation surrounding them. Heartbreaking, intimate, and full of longing, it’s one of Massenet’s most cherished melodies.

This groundbreaking recording captures Heartbeat Opera’s bold, musical theatre-infused reimagining of Manon, featuring a witty new English-language adaptation by Jacob Ashworth and Rory Pelsue, with vibrant new arrangements by Dan Schlosberg. Performed by an extraordinary cast of opera-savvy Broadway voices, MANON! reintroduces Massenet’s masterpiece with breathtaking immediacy, proving that this timeless story still speaks directly to audiences today.

🎧 Stream “When I Close My Eyes (The Dream)” now, and pre-save MANON! before its August 14 release!

#NewMusicFriday #Opera #ClassicalMusic #OriginalCastRecording #Broadway

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From rehearsal to performance to the recording studio and into your ears…

“When I Close My Eyes (The Dream),” the second single from the MANON! Original Cast Recording, is out TOMORROW. Pre-save at the link in our bio.

“Where is that girl… Let me sparkle” is streaming now, and the full cast recording is coming August 14!

#heartbeatopera #operanyc #musicaltheatre #opera #newmusicfriday

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The MANON! Original Cast Recording is coming August 14!

@lexiconclassics has revealed the cover art for our first-ever music release, capturing last season’s thrilling English-language adaptation that transforms Massenet’s classic opera into a dazzling new musical theatre-infused reinvention.

Listen to the first single NOW at the link in our bio!

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Something's Coming, my next album, is due out November 13th! This band has been performing together since 2017, growing, workshopping and cumulating repertoire over the years, and it is so special to have finally recorded together. I’m so grateful for them, and for everybody involved in the process. I can’t wait to share the full project with you.

Presave the album and preoder a CD (limited signed copies will be available!) at my link in bio

photo & creative set design @christophrboyle
cover & font design: Sean House
styling @karaerwincreative
hmu @yuuivision

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