Jake Heggie’s “It’s a Wonderful Life’’ is a high-flying operatic version of the Frank Capra film that has since its 1946 opening become a Christmas favorite.
If you remember the film as sentimental, it did have its sentimental moments, and Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s opera does too, but the music holds its own and manages to delve even more deeply into the dark side of the story with striking results.
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