Music of Remembrance Streams Heggie & Scheer’s ‘For a Look or a Touch’
Music of Remembrance will stream Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “For a Look or a Touch” between May 18-25. The opera was inspired by a true love story of Manfred Lewin and Gad Beck, two men persecuted during the Holocaust for being Jewish and gay. Lewin was murdered in Auschwitz, but his memoirs were preserved. Gad meanwhile overcame poverty and {…}