Gene Scheer is the celebrated librettist behind some of the most powerful new operas of our time. He’s best known for collaborations with Jake Heggie (Moby-Dick, Three Decembers, It’s a Wonderful Life, Intelligence), as well as works with Mason Bates, Jennifer Higdon, Joby Talbot, and Tobias Picker. In 2025, his libretti take center stage at the Metropolitan Opera – with the Met premiere of Moby-Dick in the spring, followed by The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which opens the Met’s 2025/26 season in a new Bartlett Sher production conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
