“Before It All Goes Dark”

Jake Heggie, composer of “Before It All Goes Dark,” a one-act opera based on the real-life story of an American veteran who learns he is heir to artworks looted by the Nazis. (James Niebuhr)

My Seattle Times preview of Jake Heggie’s latest stagework, a one-act chamber opera commissioned by Music of Remembrance that will be premiered this Sunday 18 May:

Jake Heggie can never predict where he will find the topic for his next opera. But the American composer has an instinct for recognizing when he has alighted on a story that will send his imagination into overdrive. ..

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