Jake Heggie reviews
Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters
Violins of Hope
Jake Heggie: Unexpected Shadows
A Certain Slant of Light: Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson
Into the Fire
Chrorus and Orchestra of The Dallas Opera perform Heggie's Great Scott
Jake Heggie’s works are consistently successful with American audiences, and his opera Dead Man Walking, his first collaboration with playwright Terrence McNally, more widely so. At 56 Heggie is the most prominent opera composer on the US scene.
Heggie: It’s a Wonderful Life with the Houston Grand Opera and Chorus
It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t only the title of the 1946 Frank Capra movie regularly placed in Christmas TV schedules to spread good cheer and a fuzzy sense of community spirit. Since December 2016 it’s also been an opera, premiered and co-commissioned by Houston Grand Opera from Jake Heggie and his regular librettist Gene Scheer. One change from the film is immediately obvious: the charmingly whimsical guardian angel trying to prevent the suicide of the ordinary, good small-town citizen George Bailey has had a sex change.