FULL CROSSING BORDERS (Jake Heggie) New York 2025 Megan Moore
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Crossing Borders
- Composer: Heggie Jake
- Libretto: based on diary entries by Nora London
- Venue & Opera Company: Morgan Library and Museum, New York
- Recorded: April 6, 2025
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Megan Moore
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Francesco Barfoed, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: George and Nora London Foundation
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Programme:
Barbara Strozzi – ‘L’Eraclito amoroso’
Rossini – ‘La regata veneziana’
Prokofiev – 5 Poems, Op.27 (words by Anna Akhmatova)
Rachmaninoff – ‘The Dream’, ‘A-oo’ from 6 Romances
Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Jake Heggie – Crossing Borders
The concert closed with a world premiere by Jake Heggie, based on diary entries by Nora London, co-founder of the Foundation for Singers. Crossing Borders is not only the piece’s title, it also describes the entire recital in its journey across languages and time periods. As a teenager, Nora London had escaped the Nazis through various countries and kept her thoughts on paper in earnest, poetic script. Heggie set the texts to chanson-style songs that created a nostalgic yet hopeful tone, capturing feelings of both loss and love. Moore proved her mastery in contemporary work, a special interest of hers, and sang the part with her operatic talent of characterization along with equal comfort in harnessing the vast inner spaces that intimate song cycles make possible. Of note were the humming moments between texts which transported one into this young refugee’s world.
Quoted from Seen-and-Heard