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 ...

Photos: Table Read of “Polly Peachum” with the full cast, composer Gene Scheer and librettist Bill Van Horn. It’s an old cliché, but the image of great oaks-from-little acorns really does apply to CU ...

Piedmont Opera will celebrate its 50th-anniversary season with an ambitious lineup of performances and special events that it ...

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 ...

Known for his politically attuned revivals, the director once again uses the stage to question art’s power in moments of moral and social crisis.

This weekend will bring a world-premiere opera to IU. Co-produced by the Jacobs School of Music and the Metropolitan Opera, Gene Scheer and Mason Bates’s adaptation of Michael Chabon’s ...

At the Dallas Opera, Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer’s adaptation of the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby movingly depicts the writer’s experience of being left speechless and almost entirely immobile by a ...

Unlike his librettist Gene Scheer, composer Jake Heggie didn’t want any direct contact with the Houston firefighters who’d gone to New York City to help out in the 9/11 tragedy ten years ago, and he ...

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.