Stage Director

Back after popular demand, Lyric Opera OC reprises their January 2023 production of Jake Heggie’s Two Remain for the inaugural statewide California Music Festival. Kicking off the festival’s calendar, this production will leave you with tears in your eyes and silence on your lips. Heggie crafts a visceral memoir based on the true story of two Holocaust survivors and their reflections, and the choices that haunt them, from their time in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp of WWII.

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Jake Heggie's Two Remain

Huntington Beach Central Library

Campbell’s libretto is inspired by the work of iconic American artist Edward Hopper and his enigmatic depictions of life in New York City during the early 20th century. The one-act opera is set in a single evening in 1932 Manhattan and brings to life the characters and scenes from five Hopper paintings: Room in New York (1932), Hotel Window (1955), Hotel Room (1931), Two on the Aisle (1927), and Automat (1927). In a series of parallel vignettes, the characters all attend the same Broadway show. Later the Same Evening captures Hopper’s frequent motifs of isolation and loneliness, but as the 11 characters leave the theater, the opera’s parting theme rings clearly: New York is full of the possibility of connection.

Stage Director

Scott Skiba

Events

Upcoming events

5 - 8 Mar, 2026

John Musto's "Later the Same Evening & Bastianello" · Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Past events

3 - 4 Nov, 2023

Jake Heggie's Two Remain · Lyric Opera of Orange County

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