Moby-Dick - The Metropolitan Opera (2025) - Moby-Dick - The Metropolitan Opera (2025)

Description

New production,
already played in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Following the haunting Met premiere of his first opera, Dead Man Walking, composer Jake Heggie returns to the company with his 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s sea-drenched, heaven-storming epic. A cast of standouts comes together on the decks of the Pequod, with tenor Brandon Jovanovich starring as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, implacable in his pursuit of the white whale, tenor Stephen Costello as Greenhorn, the opera’s version of Ishmael, baritone Peter Mattei as the even-keeled first mate Starbuck, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the Polynesian harpooneer Queequeg. Maestro Karen Kamensek takes the podium for a stunning staging by Leonard Foglia that arrives at the Met newly enlarged and refined following acclaimed runs in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.