After 15 years of sailing from house to house, the Pequod has finally floated into the Met, its splintering wood, freezing iron, and sodden ropes transfigured into digital drawing. Moby-Dick, an opera by librettist Gene Scheer and composer Jake Heggie has been performed widely enough (in Dallas,

It signifies a breakthrough of storytelling through advanced stage technology and, with any luck, a consolidation of the controversial neotonal movement that has taken opera away from modernism and back to something more traditional.