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 ...

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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 ...

Rare is the opera that tells a Chicagoan’s story. And while Before It All Goes Dark, a new work by the in-demand composer Jake Heggie, unfolds mostly in Prague, the protagonist is a middle-aged ...

7 p.m. Wednesday CU’s International Film Series presents a free screening of the film “Dead Man Walking” in Muenzinger Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. Thursday CU Department of Sociology, CU School of Law and ...

This undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows set model by Jan Versweyveld for the new production of Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking." After years of pushing, Joyce DiDonato has been ...

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 ...