Dazzling staging " LA Opera's "Moby Dick" " Los Angeles opera review
With its themes of insanity, obsession, brotherhood, loss, capitalism, freedom " to name a few " Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered one of the great works of American literature. Epic stories naturally lend themselves to the heightened milieu of opera. What Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer's opera lacks musically is more than compensated