When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...
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 ...
Last night during its “Composer Conversations” event, The Dallas Opera announced a commission of a new opera, Everest, by composer Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer. The one-act work will mark ...
MOBY-DICK--Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession and man-versus-nature, succinctly adapted by composer Jake Heggie with Gene Scheer’s taut libretto--roared into the Met Monday night and begged only ...
When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...
San Francisco composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer are embarking on what seems like an impossible mission: writing a two-act opera based on Julien Green’s 1947 Faustian fantasy, “If I Were ...
The classic Christmas story, redefined for a new generation. Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s operatic adaptation of the genre-defining Frank Capra film of the same name, It’s a Wonderful Life will ...
At the Met, Moby-Dick Gets Rendered DownJake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.
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