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Dallas Opera: MOBY-DICK By Jake Heggie, Libretto by Gene Scheer
Date: April 30, 2010 - May 2, 2010
Website: www.dallasopera.org
Location: Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House
Address:
2403 Flora St
Dallas TX 75201
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Sung in English with English supertitles. Run time approximately 3 hrs.
Join The Dallas Opera for a tremendous seafaring and spiritual adventure that will carry audiences from the bustling ports of New England—in the days of the great sailing ships—to equatorial waters and the distant South Seas.
A new work by Jake Heggie, the acclaimed composer of Dead Man Walking, and librettist Gene Scheer (Thérèse Raquin and An American Tragedy); Moby-Dick explores the lethal power of obsession and the need for human connection and understanding in an increasingly multicultural world. Based on Herman Melville’s sprawling 19th century literary masterpiece, Moby-Dick is filled with mysterious encounters, exotic characters and one man’s quest for a white whale that leaves death and destruction in its wake.
Starring operatic superstar Ben Heppner, one of the world’s leading heldentenors, as the vengeful Captain Ahab; baritone Morgan Smith as Starbuck; tenor Stephen Costello as Greenhorn; bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu as Queequeg; soprano Talise Trevigne as Pip; tenor Allan Glassman as Flask and baritone Robert Orth as Stubb. This all-star ensemble cast will be conducted by Patrick Summers and staged by Leonard Foglia. This new co-production will be designed by two-time Tony Award-nominee Robert Brill and award-winning Broadway veterans Jane Greenwood and Donald Holder.
A Dallas Opera world premiere!