When Jake Heggie was a public-relations associate for San Francisco Opera in the early 1990s, he had a long-standing dream to become a composer. That vision was fulfilled in a high-profile way when ...
San Francisco Opera will present the 25th-anniversary production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking from September 14–28 at the War Memorial Opera House. The landmark opera, ...
Rare is the opera that tells a Chicagoan’s story. And while Before It All Goes Dark, a new work by the in-demand composer Jake Heggie, unfolds mostly in Prague, the protagonist is a middle-aged ...
Jake Heggie, the composer of Dead Man Walking—called the most performed and popular American opera of the 21st century—has had an impact on the world of modern classical music that he never expected ...
“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer” – The Wall Street Journal Composer Jake Heggie is best known for the operas Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It’s a Wonderful ...
In what figures to be a score for refined palates, the famous 1976 wine tasting in which California selections stunningly triumphed over older French vineyards will be portrayed in the opera “The ...
In what figures to be a score for refined palates, the famous 1976 wine tasting in which California selections stunningly triumphed over older French vineyards will be portrayed in the opera “The ...