Festival Napa Valley's 20th anniversary season will feature three world premieres, including THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS, a new ...

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 ...

Season Also Features New Works by John Corigliano and Michael Thurber June 30, 2026 (Napa, CA) -- Festival Napa Valley’s 20th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the opening scene of Jake Heggie’s chamber opera “Three Decembers,” the seemingly pedestrian subject matter, lengthy plot exposition via long-distance phone call and unmelodic recitative make you ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the cover of its July issue, Opera News dubbed Jake Heggie “U.S. opera’s most successful composer.” It was an odd pronouncement for the in-house publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. As of ...

The San Francisco Opera will present the West Coast premiere of San Francisco composer Jake Heggie’s latest opera, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” at the War Memorial Opera House in fall 2018 as part of the ...