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A reframed Moby-Dick surfaces at Metropolitan Opera — review

The New York Times · 3d

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.

Vulture on MSN · 1d

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 by librettist Gene Scheer and composer Jake Heggie has been performed widely enough (in Dallas,

The Financial Times · 21h

A reframed Moby-Dick surfaces at the Metropolitan Opera — review

The Great White Whale has been waiting in the wings of the Metropolitan Opera for years, and is still only glimpsed. No matter. It’s the menace that counts in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick,

The New York Times · 1d

Review: ‘Moby-Dick,’ the Opera, Cuts the Blubber

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

The Classical Review16h

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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