Opera San Jose presents a double bill to die for

Alma Deutscher‘s upbringing was quite ordinary.

She began playing the piano at age 2, wrote an opera when she was 10, and saw the world premiere of that composition at Opera San Jose when she was 12.

You know, ordinary.

While anyone could look at Deutscher’s life and easily stamp the word “prodigy” onto her otherworldly resume, Deutscher herself doesn’t see it that way.

“I never thought it was strange in any way, and just felt that what I was doing as a child was normal,” said Deutscher...