Background
Wallace, Stewart F. was born on November 21, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Sidney and Marsha Joan Wallace.
Wallace, Stewart F. was born on November 21, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Sidney and Marsha Joan Wallace.
Bachelor, University Texas, 1982.
He filed for a divorce with Diane Festa and is single. He had a child with Festa, named Lucas Wallace. Two of his operas have been premiered at the Houston Grand Opera, Where"s Dick? (1989) and Harvey Milk (1995).
The latter of which was based on the life of its namesake.
His most recent opera, The Bonesetter"s Daughter, uses a libretto by Amy Tan which is based on her novel of the same name. The Bonesetter"s Daughter premiered at the War Memorial Opera House of the San Francisco Opera in 2008.
The New York City Opera announced that it would stage the East Coast premiere of Wallace"s “Hopper’s Wife” — a 1997 chamber opera about an imagined marriage between the painter Edward Hopper and the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper -- at Harlem Stage from April 28 through May 1, 2016.
(Stewart Wallace and Donald Runnicles have produced an ope...)