Heggie: Great Scott (Live 2-CD) – Joyce DiDonato
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Heggie: Great Scott (Live 2-CD) – Joyce DiDonato
Composers: Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally
Artists: Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Pérez, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kevin Burdette, Rodell Rosel, Michael Mayes, Orchestra & Chorus of the Dallas Opera
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Number of Discs: 2
Label: RWC/Rhino Warner Classics
CD Release Date: January 12, 2018
Joyce DiDonato stars in a live world-premiere recording of an opera written specifically for her: Great Scott by Jake Heggie.
Heggie, who has been described as American opera’s most successful composer, chose the celebrated playwright Terrence McNally as his librettist for Great Scott. The two previously collaborated on the gripping Dead Man Walking, which has become something of a modern classic since its premiere in 2000. Joyce DiDonato first performed its central role, Sister Helen Prejean, at New York City Opera in 2002.
Fred Plotkin of WQXR, the USA’s leading classical music radio station, welcomed Great Scott as a “deeply moving and musically brilliant work” that “should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie’s two previous masterpieces – Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick – already have.”
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