Photo Flash: First Look at IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE at Houston Grand Opera
by BWW News Desk
- Dec 6, 2016
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) continues its cycle of holiday operas with the world premiere presentation of It's a Wonderful Life by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, now through December 17. This timeless tale follows a troubled banker whose guardian angel teaches him the lesson of realizing the lasting impact our lives can have on those around us. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Houston Grand Opera Presents World Premiere of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
by BWW
News Desk
- Dec 2, 2016
Houston Grand Opera continues its cycle of holiday operas with the world premiere of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. The timeless tale follows a troubled banker whose guardian angel shows him the lasting impact our lives can have on those around us.
San Francisco Opera to present IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE in Fall 2018
by Rebecca Russo
- Nov 28, 2016
San Francisco Opera will present the West Coast premiere of It's a Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, during the 2018-19 Season at the War Memorial Opera House. An opera in two acts, It's a Wonderful Life is a co-commission and co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and is based on Frank Capra's beloved 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, by permission of Paramount Licensing, Inc., and "The Greatest Gift," a short story by Philip Van Doren Stern.
San Francisco Opera to Present West Coast Premiere of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE Fall 2018
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 28, 2016
San Francisco Opera will present the West Coast premiere of It's a Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, during the 2018-19 Season at the War Memorial Opera House. An opera in two acts, It's a Wonderful Life is a co-commission and co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and is based on Frank Capra's beloved 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, by permission of Paramount Licensing, Inc., and 'The Greatest Gift,' a short story by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The Dallas Opera Presents MOBY-DICK, Today
by BWW
News Desk
- Nov 4, 2016
The Dallas Opera is very proud to present the eagerly anticipated revival of an historic Dallas Opera production: Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's critically acclaimed twenty-first century masterpiece: MOBY-DICK, starring world-renowned heldentenor Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab.
Houston Grand Opera Presents IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
by A.A. Cristi
- Oct 31, 2016
On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at The Guggenheim presents a discussion with the creators and excerpts of Houston Grand Opera's upcoming world premiere of It's a Wonderful Life by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer.
12th Annual Opera News Awards Are Announced!
by Christina Mancuso
- Oct 31, 2016
OPERA NEWS Editor in Chief F. Paul Driscoll today announced the recipients of the 12th Annual OPERA NEWS Awards. This year's honorees—stage director Robert Carsen, soprano Christine Goerke, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, tenor Matthew Polenzani, and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade—will be feted at a black tie gala celebration on April 9th, 2017 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara will be the special musical guest.
Brooklyn Art Song Society Present's Hanns Eisler's HOLLYWOOD LIEDERBUCH
by A.A. Cristi
- Oct 21, 2016
On Friday November 4th Brooklyn Art Song Society presents a rare complete performance of Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch. Written during the composers first months in America during World War II, the Hollywood Songbook is a deeply personal mediation on loneliness, isolation, and alienation in the modern world.
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