At the Met, a visually stunning ‘Moby-Dick’ surfaces but never goes deep
The Metropolitan Opera premiered an expanded version of Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation, which had its East Coast premiere at Washington National Opera in 2014.
‘Moby-Dick’ and ‘Fidelio’ Review: Opera Adrift at the Met
The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville classic, and Beethoven’s tale of a political prisoner and his wife featuring the star soprano Lise Davidsen.
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 Metropolitan Opera, to opera superstar on stage, to now a farmer on an active farm in Illinois, about an hour outside of Chicago.
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.
Review: Heggie-Scheer MOBY-DICK Triumphs in New Foglia Production at the Met
MOBY-DICK--Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession and man-versus-nature, succinctly adapted by composer Jake Heggie with Gene Scheer’s taut libretto--roared into the Met Monday night and begged only one question: What took so long for it to get here?
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, now making its Met debut some 15 years after its Dallas premiere.
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.
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
See MASTODON discuss 'Leviathan' and the Met's new 'Moby-Dick' Opera
“We had an E-350 white Ford Econoline van that we called the ‘fartbox,’ but also called ‘Moby-Dick’ after Leviathan came out,” he explained, adding, “The insides sort of smelled like the insides of Moby-Dick.”
At the Met, Moby-Dick Gets Rendered Down
Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.
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“White whale! Holy Grail!”: How the epic tale of Moby-Dick inspired Mastodon’s greatest album
And it was their relentless, questing pursuit of excellence which inspired their finest artistic achievement. “Leviathan, the ...
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A ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired opera opens at the Met
When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first ...
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A powerful tale
Jake Heggie has been prominent at the Met of late. His Dead Man Walking opened the 2023–24 season. Moby-Dick premiered in ...
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Moby Dick whale dating back 200 years put back together after appeal for its bones
Curator of the museum Philippa Wood believes people have taken bones as souvenirs, with 11 of its 44 vertebrae and much of ...
Restoration plan for famed East Yorkshire whale skeleton mentioned in Moby Dick
Conservationists are aiming to raise £80,000 to restore the enormous skeleton of a whale that washed ashore in East Yorkshire ...
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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 ...
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Fisch Moby update guide— How to catch Moby and Blue Whale, new content, and more
Our guide goes over everything that you need to know about the Whale Event and how to catch the Moby Dick in Fisch. The post ...