Tag: Jake Heggie
12 Hollywood Bowl Concerts Not To Miss This Summer
From classical music to jazz to show tunes to film scores - this season has it all
Composer Jennifer Higdon Lives in the Air of Ideas
"I was thinking about the breathing thing. This is a much calmer sort of experience. It's also a challenge for me because normally I write a lot of fast notes. "
Baritone Etienne Dupuis Strives for Perfection…
"I think one of the hardest things to do is to strive for perfection and then have the humility to recognize that you did your best."
Irina Meachem Celebrates The Ways We Come Together
"A singer goes through so much; they have such a big job to do. And I respect what they go through. I can't do it. Yet there are things that the pianist does which is equally impressive and important for me."
Festival Opera’s Zachary Gordin Goes Into the Fire
A great way to become familiar with a composer's work is to perform it. Zachary Gordin, the General Director of Festival Opera in Walnut...
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Composer Jake Heggie Brings “Moby Dick” to LA Opera
"To really give yourself over to that world is a really big commitment. I read it twice through before we started writing. All the chapters that irritated me at the beginning are now my favorites—those side chapters not involved in the plot.”
Jake Heggie’s Opera “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Santa Monica
"We are all capable of enormous good and enormous evil. Does repeating the worst behavior of a criminal and putting that onto them solve anything? Does that make us better? Who has all the answers?”