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Before It All Goes Dark
Location: Music & Dramatic Arts Building, Shaver Theatre - 4-19-2026 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm (America/New_York) (1 hour)

The Turner-Fischer Center for Opera presents the collegiate premiere of Before It All Goes Dark\, a gripping new opera by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer. This new work follows Gerald “Mac” McDonald\, a Vietnam veteran who discovers the hidden legacy his family left to him...a Jewish heritage and a priceless art collection that was taken from them by the Nazis. Together with a journalist\, he travels to Eastern Europe to retrieve his artistic inheritance and an understanding of his cultural tradition.