The Official Website of Jake Heggie, Composer & Pianist
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Jake Heggie is the American composer of the operas Moby-Dick (libretto by Gene Scheer), Dead Man Walking (libretto by Terrence McNally), Three Decembers (Scheer), The End of the Affair (McDonald), Out of Darkness – A Holocaust Triptych (Scheer), To Hell and Back (Scheer), At the Statue of Venus (McNally), and The Radio Hour: A Choral Opera (Scheer). He is currently at work on two new stage works: Great Scott (McNally) for The Dallas Opera in 2015, and an opera based on It’s A Wonderful Life (Scheer) for the Houston Grand Opera in 2016. Heggie has also composed more than 250 art songs, as well as concerti, chamber music, choral and orchestral works, including his recent Ahab Symphony.