The album recording of “Intelligence,” which premiered in 2023, is nominated for best opera recording. It’s also the first ...

In his career as an opera composer, Jake Heggie has written about nuns and mad sea captains, death row inmates and the angels among us. With his new opera, the San Francisco composer explores the very ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 5 Heggie said: "It's a Wonderful Life had a beautiful premiere in December 2016, but we were still learning about the piece, of course. We worked on it ...

Throughout his career, opera composer Jake Heggie has taken on big American stories. His first evening-length work, “Dead Man Walking,” was based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir of working with death ...

This undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows set model by Jan Versweyveld for the new production of Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking." After years of pushing, Joyce DiDonato has been ...

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 ...

7 p.m. Wednesday CU’s International Film Series presents a free screening of the film “Dead Man Walking” in Muenzinger Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. Thursday CU Department of Sociology, CU School of Law and ...

In his career as an opera composer, Jake Heggie has written about nuns and mad sea captains, death row inmates and the angels among us. With his new opera, the San Francisco composer explores the very ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera. By Wendy S. Walters When ...

Don’t tell Jake Heggie that opera is a dying art form. The composer of the opera “Dead Man Walking” thinks it’s alive and kicking — he even uses an unprintable term to describe a recent batch of ...

2004-03-06 04:00:00 PDT Houston-- In their opera "The End of the Affair," composer Jake Heggie and librettist Heather McDonald reimagine Graham Greene's heroine as an adulteress- turned-saint, a real ...

SAN DIEGO — Jake Heggie’s latest opera, “Great Scott,” given its West Coast premiere by San Diego Opera on Saturday night, is a farce about the opera world. A financially struggling Texas company, ...