World Premiere Review: Jake Heggie’s Faustian Fantasy “If I Were You” – Merola Opera Program, San Francisco, August 1, 2019

California composer Jake Heggie, in collaboration with librettist Gene Scheer, has composed another richly melodic, major new work. The new opera,”If I Were You” was created for the impressive voices and imposing talents of the young artists of the Merola Opera Program, that is associated with the San Francisco Opera. A dramatically satisfying, through-composed opera, … Read more