Festival Napa Valley premieres Jake Heggie's delightful new opera about the blind tasting that changed California wine ...

When Jake Heggie was a public-relations associate for San Francisco Opera in the early 1990s, he had a long-standing dream to become a composer. That vision was fulfilled in a high-profile way when ...

In what figures to be a score for refined palates, the famous 1976 wine tasting in which California selections stunningly triumphed over older French vineyards will be portrayed in the opera “The ...

“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer” – The Wall Street Journal Composer Jake Heggie is best known for the operas Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It’s a Wonderful ...

San Francisco composer Jake Heggie and his frequent partner librettist Gene Scheer have collaborated on a new opera that ...

Jake Heggie, the composer of Dead Man Walking—called the most performed and popular American opera of the 21st century—has had an impact on the world of modern classical music that he never expected ...

It is one measure of San Francisco-based composer Jake Heggie's success that his songs, long considered the province of American artists, have found their champions in Europe. Thus, to a distinguished ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Jake Heggie appears in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2025. (James Niebuhr via AP) In what figures to be a score for refined ...

In what figures to be a score for refined palates, the famous 1976 wine tasting in which California selections stunningly triumphed over older French vineyards will be portrayed in the opera “The ...