Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: Before It All Goes Dark

The opera is made up of two parts: the prologue and the actual opera. In the prologue we imagine an intimate soirée in Emil Freund's Musical Salon in Prague, 1939, featuring music by contemporary composers who, like Emil, would soon be swept up in the Holocaust. The works are an important memento of these artists and their work. What remains is the music and the memory.