Three Decembers • Albany 2008
Three Decembers, an opera in two acts by Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer, based on an original play by Terrence McNally. Live recording from Houston Grand Opera (2008).
Frederica von Stade (Madeline), Kristin Clayton (Bea), Keith Phares (Charlie). Patrick Summers conducts members of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra.
“Three Decembers is a modern masterpiece, and it documents the
unusually intense collaboration between Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, his
partner also in Moby-Dick. It is a triumph... He is clearly America’s No. 1 opera composer.”