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

The Metropolitan Opera premiered an expanded version of Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation, which had its East Coast premiere at ...

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. It signifies a breakthrough of storytelling ...

The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville ...

Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.

At the Met, Moby-Dick Gets Rendered DownJake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.

Green and Costello were in full voice, the orchestra had a new level of energy. The climax was like the slow eruption of a ...

MOBY-DICK--Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession and man-versus-nature, succinctly adapted by composer Jake Heggie with ...

Built in 1893, the well-maintained Victorian has a third-floor entertainment space and a two-story deck offering skyline ...