Jake Heggie    -Biography- Composer Biography Transcript Video RealPlayer | Quicktime • Jake's Web Site • UK Guardian Opera Review • US OperaWeb Feature: Dead Man Walking • SF Opera Site Bio "The music's all about creating character and giving that singer something to connect with the audience." The Players Sam Fleming | Susan Graham | Jake Heggie | Lotfi Mansouri | Terrence McNally | John Packard | Patrick Summers | Frederica von Stade | Michael Yeargan Teachers: Visit our Classroom Content area for ways to help your students explore social issues through art and music.

Jake Heggie The music of Jake Heggie is being performed internationally and recorded by such noted singers as sopranos RenÚe Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Dawn Upshaw and Carol Vaness; mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham and Jennifer Larmore; countertenor Brian Asawa; and baritone Thomas Hampson. He also accompanies many of these artists in recitals, as well as on his latest recording of songs, entitled The Faces of Love, released on RCA Red Seal. A winner in the 1995 Schirmer National Art Song Competition, G. Schirmer published 50 of his songs in three volumes last year.

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