It’s the Metropolitan Opera premiere of the 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic story. Composer Jake Heggie did the music, collaborating with librettist Gene Scheer on ...

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Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season will continue with Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” The production will be shown in more than 700 theaters nationwide on Saturday, March 15, 2025. Soprano Lise ...

But if there’s a contemporary opera that should make a comeback as soon as possible, this is one. And hopefully, it then gets a much-deserved HD rendition. In the meantime, it’s imperative that people ...

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How he and his collaborators did it will be on display at the Metropolitan Opera beginning March 3. The opera is composed by Jake Heggie to a libretto crafted by Gene Scheer. To begin with ...