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Heggie, J.: It's A Wonderful Life (Opera) [Burden, Trevigne, Carroll, Gilfry, J. Hopkins, Griffey, Houston Grand Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Summers]
Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer knew before they ever wrote a note or a line of it’s a Wonderful Life that there are challenges in adapting a treasured classic for the operatic stage. After all, Heggie and Scheer’s hit 2010 opera Moby-Dick raised the same challenges: how could they remain faithful to the source material and still create something new, which emphasized the story’s innate operatic qualities? For it’s a Wonderful Life, Heggie and Scheer responded by keeping the basic plot and characters from the beloved Frank Capra film version but changing the perspective. As in the film, an angel—changed in the opera from Clarence to Clara—is assigned to help a man named George Bailey, who is despondent and contemplating taking his own life on Christmas Eve; if Clara succeeds, she will earn her wings. But in a departure from the film, all the action takes place from Clara’s perspective and in her realm. Seventy mirrored doors re...
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