Composer Paul Scherer and librettist Germaine Shames’ “In Venice” is set to premiere in New York on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024. The opera, which is based on Edith Wharton‘s short stories “The Muse’s Tragedy” and “The Touchstone,” is a 90-minute two-act chamber piece about a poet’s biographer and the poet’s muse as they spend time together in Venice. The {…}