Heggie, Jake

Jake Heggie (San Francisco, California)

2025–26 Season: Composer, Dead Man Walking

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Dead Man Walking; Three Decembers; It's A Wonderful Life

Recent and Upcoming: Intelligence (Houston Grand Opera); Earth 2.0 (Fort Worth Symphony); Songs for Murdered Sisters (Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia's Marian Anderson Hall); new commission for Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Carnegie Hall, Houston, Kennedy Center); Dead Man Walking (Metropolitan Opera); Moby-Dick (Metropolitan Opera); Before It All Goes Dark (Music of Remembrance); Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope (Music at Kohl Mansion); Overture (New Century Chamber Orchestra); Lake Tahoe Symphonic Reflections (Classical Tahoe Festival); Fantasy Suite 1803 (Beethoven-Haus Bonn)

Composer of 10 full-length operas and numerous one-acts; 300 art songs, as well as concerti, chamber music, choral, and orchestral works