HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. “Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer,” says The Wall Street Journal. With such titles as Dead Man Walking, Great Scott, It’s a Wonderful Life and Moby-Dick to his credits, the WSJ may well be correct in its judgment.
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John Corry, a former culture news reporter and television critic for The New York Times whose investigative articles helped clear a young man wrongly convicted of killing his mother and disputed plagiarism allegations against bestselling author Jerzy Kosinski, died Saturday in his home in New York City. He was 89.
University Opera presents Wisconsin premiere of chamber opera by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer based on the memoirs of Holocaust survivors, 7:30 pm on 11/19 & 23 and 2 pm, 11/21, UW Music Hall. $27.