An Evening with Gene Scheer

From Moby-Dick to the Grammy Award-winning opera Intelligence, which tells the true story of two women who operated a Union spy network during the Civil War, join Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist, lyricist, and composer Gene Scheer for a fascinating conversation about music, storytelling, and the creative life.

Scheer is the librettist for Piedmont Opera's upcoming North Carolina premieres of Another Sunrise and Before It All Goes Dark.

 

WHEN: Friday, November 13, 2026
6:30–7:00 PM | Wine, cheese & mingling (complimentary)
7:00–8:00 PM | Q&A with Gene Scheer

 

WHERE:
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)
Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
2100 Eure Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27109

 

This event is free to the public BUT SEATING IS LIMITED.