It's a Wonderful Life is an opera by Jake Heggie to a libretto by Gene Scheer based on the 1946 film. The opera premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on December 2, 2016."How It's a Wonderful Life Became an Opera", "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."
Recording William Burden (George Bailey), Andrea Carroll (Mary Hatch), Zoie Reams (angel); Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, conductor: Patrick Summers, Pentatone
See also List of Christmas operas
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