Tenor Miles Mykkanen stars as Sam Clay in Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on opening night of The Metropolitan Opera’s 25/26 season, and spoke with outlets worldwide about his starring role and what it’s like to play a queer character onstage at the Met.

Following more than 80 productions around the world, Heggie’s Dead Man Walking celebrates its 25th anniversary with a return to the War Memorial stage where it premiered. San Francisco Opera presents Leonard Foglia’s captivating production, starring Jamie Barton, Ryan McKinny, and Susan Graham – with Patrick Summers, conductor of the work’s world premiere, in the pit.

Jake Heggie’s 10th opera Intelligence receives a world premiere recording on the LSO Live label – the first album in the label’s new partnership with Houston Grand Opera. The live capture features Jamie Barton, Janai Brugger, and J’Nai Bridges in the original production that opened HGO’s 2023/24 season.

Composer Jake Heggie announces a landmark 25/26 season, featuring a milestone opera anniversary, major premieres and new productions, an international album release, and a new faculty role shaping future composers at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Seattle-based Music of Remembrance is featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy amid the worldwide release of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Before It All Goes Dark, the 10th anniversary tour of Tom Cipullo and David Mason’s After Life, and challenging funding cuts from the NEA.

Ahead of leading Washington National Opera’s production of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya advocates for the arts in a Washington Post Op-Ed.

Bass-baritone Ryan McKinny makes a powerful role debut as the strong and sensitive Jan Nyman in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves at Houston Grand Opera.

World-renowned conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya returns to the Capital Region to guest conduct the Albany Symphony – the orchestra whose concerts she regularly attended while growing up. She spoke with many outlets prior to her homecoming, including Albany Times-Union, CBS6, Classical WMHT, and Northeast Public Radio.

This March, Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick received its long-awaited Metropolitan Opera premiere in a star-studded production by Leonard Foglia. Jake spoke with outlets such as The New Yorker, Associated Press, The New York Times, and Spectrum News NY1 about his latest opera to be mounted at the Met.

Verismo is delighted to welcome exuberant young Finnish-American tenor Miles Mykanen to the roster ahead of his title role debut on opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 25/26 season.

Music of Remembrance presents its annual free community concert Art From Ashes on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Jake Heggie and Margaret Atwood address gender-based violence in performances by The Philadelphia Orchestra and baritone Joshua Hopkins, under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, at Marian Anderson Hall and Carnegie Hall.

Fort Worth Symphony presents the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Earth 2.0, a monodrama about the Earth’s relationship with humanity. With lyrics by Anita Amirrezvani, the piece was written for countertenor, orchestra, and dancers.

Jamie Barton makes a dual role and house debut as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress at Opéra National de Paris. She joins Ben Bliss, Golda Schultz, Clive Bayley, and Iain Patterson under the baton of Susanna Mälkki.

Eun Sun Kim makes her highly-anticipated Royal Opera House debut leading Jonathan Kent’s stunning production of Tosca. In anticipation of her debut, she was profiled in the Financial Times.

Musical America announces the 64th annual Artist of the Year awards, naming Jake Heggie Composer of the Year. The organization recognizes artists who have advanced the art form beyond expectation and have brought new perspectives to the performing arts.

Music Director Eun Sun Kim continues her Verdi-Wagner initiative at San Francisco Opera with her first Tristan und Isolde. The nearly five-hour epic starred Simon O'Neill, Anja Kampe, Wolfgang Koch, Annika Schlicht, and Kwangchul Youn.

San Francisco Opera releases Eun Sun Kim: A Journey into Lohengrin, a documentary on the company’s music director and what it takes to produce an opera, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast, crew, and orchestra.

OPERA America announces the induction of composer and mentor Jake Heggie into the Opera Hall of Fame, which recognizes the achievements of outstanding living American artists, administrators, and advocates who have strengthened the art form and the field.

San Francisco Opera announces that music director Eun Sun Kim will extend her contract through the 2030-31 season, including plans to lead new productions of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen and Verdi’s Parsifal.