Blue Lake Public Radio

A conversation with Jake Heggie
May 2024

Heggie's new work, Earth 2.0 will receive its Michigan premiere with the Grand Rapids Symphony (which co-commissioned the piece with the Fort Worth Symphony) in its season finale concerts, May 9 and 10.

Foley Schuler speaks with Jake Heggie about his unique musical journey, and about this compelling new work written with librettist Anita Amirrezvani — an unusual cross between an opera and song cycle, composed for and starring the remarkable countertenor Key’mon Murrah, and which features two dancers, with choreography by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of the legendary NYC-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women — which takes us on a deeply emotional journey through one of the most urgent stories of our time: The relationship between Earth and Humanity.