Playwright Terrence McNally has died of Coronavirus. In addition to his dramatic and musical theater work (he was a four-time Tony winner and the recipient of three Drama Desk Awards), McNally provided the libretto for Jake Heggie’s opera, “Dead Man Walking.” “Dead Man Walking” was given its premiere in San Francisco in 2000. It has gone on to become the most widely-performed new opera of the past 20 years. The work is scheduled to receive its Met debut next season. Heggie and McNally collaborated on a second project, “Great Scott,” in 2015. Also of interest, perhaps, to operaphiles, McNally was the author of “The Golden Age” (about Bellini’s “I puritani”), “The Lisbon Traviata,” and “Master Class,” a dramatic portrait of Maria Callas. McNally was 81 years-old.
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