November 18, 20, 22, 24, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking at Opera Ireland. A new production by Thomas de Mallet Burgess, conducted by Bruno Ferrandis with Charlotte Hellekant (Sister Helen), Marcus De Loach (Joseph) and Virginia Kerr (Joseph's Mother). |
October 26, 27 & 28, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking at the University of Colorado, Boulder. First university production. |
October 21, 2007 |
Recital with Frederica von Stade in Carmel, CA. Presented by the Carmel Music Society. |
October 12, 2007 |
Jake performs in San Francisco Performances 28th Season Gala Concert with soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and Quartetto Gelato at Yerba Buena Theater, San Francisco, CA. |
Sept 27 – Oct 15, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking in Sydney, Australia. New production. Cast includes Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Joe), Catherine Karby (Sister Helen), Elizabeth Campbell (Mrs. DeRocher). |
September 26, 29, October 2, 4, 7, 10, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking at the historic Theater an der Wien. Kristine Jepson (Sister Helen), Mel Ulrich (Joseph), Frederica von Stade (Mrs. De Rocher). Sian Edwards conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir. Nikolaus Lehnhoff directs his production from Dresden. |
Sept 23 – Oct 24, 2007 |
Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa performs Jake's song “Final Monologue from Master Class” (text by McNally) as part of her farewell recital tour program. 9/23 in Vancouver (Orpheum Theatre); 9/26 in Calgary (Jubilee Auditorium); 9/29 in San Rafael, CA (Marin Center); 10/2 in Costa Mesa, CA (Segerstrom Hall); 10/5 in Davis, CA (Mondavi Center); 10/11 in New York, NY (Carnegie Hall); 10/14 in Boston, MA (Symphony Hall); 10/20 in Toronto (Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall); 10/24 in Philadelphia (Verizon Hall); 10/27 in Schenectady, NY (Proctor's Theatre). |
September 8 – Jan 27, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking in Hagen, Germany. |
September 3 & 6, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking at the Dresden Semperoper. |
August 8, 2007 |
World premiere of Facing Forward/Looking Back, duets for women with piano, at the Ravinia Festival Steans Institute. |
June 29, 2007 |
Master class and concert at the Long Leaf Opera Festival in Chapel Hill, NC. |
June 18, 2007 |
Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and Jake give a private recital at the home of Bruce Walker to benefit theMerola Opera Program. |
June 10-15 2007 |
Guest artist at SongFest in Malibu, CA. |
June 5 & 6, 2007 |
To Hell and Back at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL. Singers Patti LuPone and Isabel Bayrakdarian perform with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor. |
May 18, 2007 |
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings a new song by Jake to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Merola Opera Program and celebrate the life of James Schwabacher. Jake accompanies at the piano. |
May 13, 2007 |
Gala Concert to benefit Noe Valley Chamber Music in San Francisco. Jake accompanies singers Marnie Breckenridge, Nicolle Foland, Ann Moss and many others in a special program of favorite arias, songs and chamber music. |
May 7, 2007 |
Music of Remembrance and baritone Morgan Smith give the world premiere of For a Look or a Touch (texts by Gene Scheer) a new work for baritone and chamber ensemble about the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust, based on interviews from the award-winning documentary “Paragraph 175.” Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall, Seattle. |
April 30, 2007 |
Master Class at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Jake and Ricky Ian Gordon coach their songs. |
April 29, 2007 |
“Theater in Song: Music by Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon” at Cal Performances, Berkeley. With special guest artist Frederica von Stade. Jake and Ricky accompany a number of singers and instrumentalists in a program of their latest work. The program includes the West Coast premieres of Jake's At the Statue of Venus (McNally) sung by Kristin Clayton. |
April 21-29, 2007 |
A new production of The End of the Affair at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. The cast includes Emily Pulley (Sarah), Keith Phares (Maurice), Joyce Castle (Mrs. Bertram), and Robert Orth (Parkis). Ward Holmquist conducts and Kristine McIntyre directs. |
April 19, 22, 27 & 30, 2007 |
Dead Man Walking at Dresden's SemperOper, Germany. A revival of the new production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff, conducted by Stefan Anton Reck. |
April 14, 2007 |
Frederica von Stade and Jake Heggie in recital inWestchester, PA. |
March 29, 2007 |
World premiere of Jake's song cycle Rise and Fall (poetry by Gene Scheer) at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Soprano Constance Rock with Jake at the piano. |
March 12-15, 2007 |
Guest Artist at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN. |
Feb. 24, 2007 |
Scenes for Dead Man Walking at Pasadena Presbyterian Church with commentary by Sister Helen Prejean. Jake accompanies and narrates between scenes. Soloists include mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman as Mrs. De Rocher. |
January 2007 |
Scandinavian premiere of Dead Man Walking continues at the Malmö Opera in Sweden. Fourteen performances in a new production starting November 20, 2006. |