Taming the ‘Howling Infinite’: ‘Moby-Dick’ Comes to the Met’s Stage
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Slow to get under sail, “Moby-Dick” builds to powerful impact in Met debut
Scheer’s libretto reduces the novel down to the central plot of Ahab chasing the whale, reminiscent of John Huston’s 1956 ...
At the Met, Moby-Dick Gets Rendered Down
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 ...
The Met Opera’s Captain Ahab In Moby-Dick, Brandon Jovanovich, On Opera And Farm Life
Oh, what a fascinating career: Brandon Jovanovich, operatic tenor from Billings, Montana, went from a cater waiter at the ...
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired the Classic Moby Dick
The film revives the nearly forgotten story of the Essex, a whaling ship whose tragic expedition inspired the literary classic Moby Dick ... our heroes embarking in search of fortune on the ...
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What Moby Dick Still Teaches Us
When Moby Dick was first published in 1851, it did not make much of a splash. It was not until it was rediscovered by the ...
An opera based on Melville’s masterpiece, ‘Moby-Dick,’ docks at the Met
The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville's masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick.’ ...