Let me say up front that I like Jake Heggie’s work. I feel he has a true gift for soaring and meaningful melody, a great ear for orchestral effects, a talent for picking good source material, and a knack for crafting affecting melodrama (in the best sense of that word) that can move an audience to tears.
Heggie faces family dilemma in new work
Do dysfunctional families outnumber the ones that move through life untroubled, or is it — to paraphrase Tolstoy — that every dysfunctional family is dysfunctional in its own way and thus of greater interest to writers and composers?
Stewed Queen Loses Her Head in ‘Bolena’
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aISQ3OFGgBs8&refer=muse
Isabel Leonard, Weill Recital Hall
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/arts/music/17roun.html?ref=music
St Matthew Passion at the Festival Hall
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article3530835.ece
Handel’s Riccardo primo, Re díInghilterra (HWV 23) and Tolomeo, Re díEgitto (HWV 25) from B‰renreiter
Published in 2007, Riccardo primo, Re díInghilterra (HWV 23) and Tolomeo, Re díEgitto (HWV 25) mark two of the latest installments of vocal-score editions of Handelís operas based upon B‰renreiterís Urtext editions.