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 ...
Festival Napa Valley’s 20th anniversary season will feature the world premiere of “Judgment of Paris,” based on the 1976 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A quarter century after it burst onto the San Francisco stage with a story about capital punishment, justice and forgiveness, the opera “Dead Man Walking” is coming home. The landmark work by San ...
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 ...