When Ken Wells isn't busy with his day jobs as a UCLA professor, director of the UCLA Health Services Research Center and an adjunct staff member at the RAND Corp., he pens operas.

 

The result of his latest moonlighting efforts is "The First Lady," a semi-fictionalized operatic account of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt during the two weeks following the death of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, which premieres Friday, Feb. 19, on the UCLA campus. The event is...