EVERYMAN AS HERO IN OPERA
The prolific composer Jake Heggie, 57, has amiable music coursing through his veins, resulting in some 300 songs written to date. You may recall Schubert in Vienna, and Brahms in Pörtschach, with so many melodies in the air, all they had to do was write them down. Or so was the claim. And Heggie gets his lyrical inspiration right here in San Francisco. But that make-no-waves facet of his does not transfer readily to composing operas with action, drama, and…