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Three Decembers by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer at Opera San Jose

World-renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham leads the cast of Opera San José’s first fully-staged digital production, Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers, based [More]

World-renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham leads the cast of Opera San José’s first fully-staged digital production, Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers, based on Tony Award winning playwright Terrence McNally’s unpublished play “Some Christmas Letters”. OSJ Resident Artists Maya Kherani and Efraín Solís complete the cast; conducted by Christopher James Ray and directed by Tara Branham. With a [more]

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The Radio Hour (Delos)

The first recording of Jake’s choral music is performed by the spectacular John Alexander Singers and the great American mezzo-soprano, [More]

The first recording of Jake’s choral music is performed by the spectacular John Alexander Singers and the great American mezzo-soprano, Susan Graham. It features the premiere recordings of Heggie & Scheer’s choral opera, The Radio Hour, as well as settings of texts by Dickinson, Amy Lowell, and the hymn from the opera Dead Man Walking. [more]

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ICONIC LEGACIES: First Ladies at the Smithsonian (2015)

Four songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Original texts by Gene Scheer, inspired by iconic objects in the Smithsonian with a [More]

Four songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Original texts by Gene Scheer, inspired by iconic objects in the Smithsonian with a particular connection to a former First Lady of the United States. Commissioned by Vocal Arts DC to celebrate its 25th Anniversary Season with generous support from the Shamos Family Foundation, Yolanda C Oertel, MD, and [more]

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Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie (Avie)

An international cast of celebrated singers and string players perform recent songs and duets by Jake Heggie. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian [More]

An international cast of celebrated singers and string players perform recent songs and duets by Jake Heggie. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian Mezzos Zheng Cao, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade Tenor Paul Groves; Baritone Keith Phares Dawn Harms, violin; CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola; Emil Miland, cello; Jake Heggie, piano Texts by Charlene Baldridge, Raymond Carver, Heggie, [more]

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The complete live recording of Dead Man Walking, 2000 ( ERATO)

The complete live recording of the world premiere production at San Francisco Opera in October 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the [More]

The complete live recording of the world premiere production at San Francisco Opera in October 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Susan Graham (Sister Helen), John Packard (Joseph de Rocher), Frederica von Stade (Joseph’s Mother), along with Theresa Hamm-Smith, Jay Hunter Morris, Gary Rideout, Catherine Cook, Robert Orth, [more]

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THE DEEPEST DESIRE (2002, 2005)

New texts by Sister Helen Prejean. Commissioned by Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. First performance: Vail, Colorado, July 16, 2002. [More]

New texts by Sister Helen Prejean. Commissioned by Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. First performance: Vail, Colorado, July 16, 2002. Mezzo-Soprano Susan Graham, flutist Eugenia Zukerman, pianist Jake Heggie. Orchestration commissioned by St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and premiered May 19, 2005 by mezzo Joyce DiDonato and conductor Patrick Summers. One or more recordings have been [more]

One or more recordings have been made.   Score is available from Schirmer/Hal Leonard or Bill Holab Music.  Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.   Rental Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.

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DEAD MAN WALKING (2000)

“Dead Man Walking makes the most concentrated impact of any piece of American music theater since West Side Story” THE [More]

“Dead Man Walking makes the most concentrated impact of any piece of American music theater since West Side Story” THE GUARDIAN (London) “Heggie’s score mingles American vernacular and modernist classical styles with ease, punctuated by dramatically emblematic tunes and genuinely beautiful music.” OPERA AMERICA (Mark Gresham) PUBLISHING & RIGHTS Bill Holab Music is agent for [more]

One or more recordings have been made.   Score is available from Schirmer/Hal Leonard or Bill Holab Music.  Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.   Rental Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.

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