Jennifer Higdon will write her first opera, to be premiered in 2013. This commission by the San Francisco Opera was announced there yesterday.From an interview we did at Curtis: "In a given year, I'll turn down on average 20 commission offers, but what I do is, I figure out which ones feel like they resonate within me, where I feel like I can actually write something that will work. Sometimes, I'll ponder the possibility, like I was asked once to write something for tap dancer and juggler and orchestra, and I thought, well, you know, I think I'll pass on this. I'm like how... what do you do for jugglers anyway? I can't figure this out. It was kind of an odd sort of request, but someone had an idea somewhere, I hope they found someone to write that."
The librettist is Gene Scheer, but no subject has been announced yet.
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