14 Dec 2008
Jake Heggie's 'Three Decembers'
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/DDMK14N1V6.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/DDMK14N1V6.DTL
Joshua Kosman [SF Chronicle, 13 December 2008]
It’s a rare theatrical work that offers its own most withering critique, but “Three Decembers” - the tiresome new chamber opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer that opened a brief three-performance run on Thursday in UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall - is one.