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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An expectant crowd had gathered outside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. It was October 2000, the ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush Women. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows set model by Jan Versweyveld for the new production of Jake Heggie's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The demand for new American operas means that composers and librettists have more opportunities than ever ...

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Composer Jake Heggie describes how the opera “Moby-Dick” was developed and his collaboration with librettist Gene Scheer and the opera singers who created the roles. Heggie says the idea of making an ...

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 ...