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In 2001, when he was 53 years old, Gerald McDonald was a Vietnam vet plagued by Hepatitis C and awaiting a liver transplant. He eked by on disability payments, entertaining
The one-act opera adaptation by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer tells the story of a man who was the heir to an art fortune worth millions.
It's been 20 years since former Chicago Tribune music critic Howard Reich uncovered the story of an ailing Vietnam veteran living in west suburban Lyons who turned out to be heir to a multimillion-dollar art collection looted from a Jewish collector murdered during the Holocaust.