Gene Scheer

Composer, Librettist, Songwriter

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Upcoming Events

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — World Premiere
March 5, 2021 - March 13, 2021
Dallas Opera, Dallas, TX

Experience a remarkable operatic journey inspired by the real Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir—a European bestseller that inspired an award-winning film at Cannes.

Recent Events

CD Launch: Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope
January 27, 2021

The CD launch has been scheduled to coincide with observance of the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.

Denyce Graves sings “American Anthem” honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 25, 2020
National Statuary Hall, the Capitol, Washington, DC

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves sang "American Anthem" by Gene Scheer as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C.

If I Were You World Premiere at San Francisco Opera
August 1, 2019 - August 6, 2019
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Loosely based on the novel Si j’étais vous by the French-American writer Julien Green, If I Were You is a contemporary story of identity with echoes of classical literature, from Faust to Jekyll and Hyde.

Moby-Dick at Chicago Opera Theater
April 25, 2019 - April 28, 2019
Harris Theater, Chicago, IL

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) capped its 2018/2019 season with the Chicago premiere of "Moby-Dick," an epic adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 classic "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale".

Joyce DiDonato at Jordan Hall
March 1, 2019
Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato makes her Boston debut with a program taken from her new album, “Songplay,” combining American standards — including Gene Scheer's "Lean Away" — with selections from “Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.”

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