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Heggie and Scheer's Moby-dick: a Grand Opera for the Twenty-First Century

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the process of being born. Interviews with the pri… more

Date: April 15, 2013

Creator: Wallace, Robert K.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Press

Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome

Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old. He also has Down syndrome. When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physi… more

Date: July 15, 2013

Creator: Hulings, Kathryn U.