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Heggie’s 23/24 Season is Packed with Premieres
Dead Man Walking Opens Metropolitan Opera Season Simulcast Worldwide to Cinemas Live in HD September 26 – October 21, 2023 World Premiere Intelligence Opens Houston Grand Opera Season October 20 – November 3, 2023 World Premiere & Global Tour of Joshua Bell Commission The Elements Hamburg, Hong Kong, New York in September 2023Chicago, Seattle in…
Dead Man Walking at The Met
The Metropolitan opera has announced their 2023-4 season, which will feature Jake Heggie’s and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking. Since its premiere in 2000, the opera has had over 70 productions throughout the world, and we are thrilled that the Met will be producing it. With a cast that includes Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen,…
Grammy Nominations
Congratulations to Jake Heggie, Laura Kaminsky, Robert Paterson and Kevin Puts for their Grammy Nominations. The recording of Heggie’s Great Scott (libretto Terrence McNally) was nominated for two awards: Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Producer of the Year (Blanton Alspaugh). Paterson’s Three Way (libretto David Cote) was also nominated for Producer of the Year (Blanton…
Danielpour and Heggie nominated for Grammy Awards
The 60th Grammy Award nominations were announced this week, and we are delighted to receive nominations for recordings by Richard Danielpour and Jake Heggie. Best Engineered Album, Classical Danielpour Songs of Solitude & War Songs Production, Classical Heggie It’s a Wonderful Life Best Contemporary Classical Composition Danielpour Songs of Solitude The awards will be telecast…
Heggie/Scheer It’s a Wonderful Life
Bedford Falls came to the opera stage last December in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s new opera It’s a Wonderful Life, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera. Partially based on the classic Capra film, Heggie and Scheer bring their own unique perspective to the story, enriched by Heggie’s lyrical music. Starring William Burden as George Bailey,…
Heggie GREAT SCOTT debuts at Dallas Opera
Opera star Arden Scott returns to her hometown to save the struggling company that launched her career. The opening night performance of the long-lost opera she discovered falls on the same night as the home team’s first National Championship game (Go, Grizzlies!). The fate of the company hangs in the balance as Arden discovers that…
