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Culture
How ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Became an Opera
In Tune
Composer Jake Heggie has turned the classic Christmas movie, about desperate George Bailey and Clarence the angel, into an opera—inspired by his own father’s suicide.
Shawn E. Milnes
Published
Dec. 1 2016
1:00AM EST
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