The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville ...

Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.

Green and Costello were in full voice, the orchestra had a new level of energy. The climax was like the slow eruption of a ...

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.

The opera is composed by Jake Heggie to a libretto crafted by Gene Scheer. To begin with, Scheer had to whittle a novel of ...

Jace, 6, was born with a rare and aggressive eye condition An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers - born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness - gain ...

The Foundation's First Commission: A Song Cycle Based on Nora London's WWII Diary, with Music by Jake Heggie and Text by Gene Scheer To mark the 30th anniversary of its annual recital series by ...

The season opens on a Sunday with Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” in its Met Opera premiere. Bartlett Sher directs and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast ...

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved.

There’s no way he could have realized it at the time, but my dad did an important thing for me and my sense of humor when I was — I don’t know — a pre-teen, somewhere around there. He ...