This was my Moby Dick Moment! BACKGROUND: Washington National Opera premiered on the east coat the new American opera Moby Dick, February 22 to March 8. Written by composer Jake Heggie and featuring an English- language libretto by Gene Scheer based on Herman Melville’s 19th-century literary classic. I have never read Moby Dick, so I was literally thrown into an ocean on this one: Where to begin before I went to show? As an aside, most reviews tell you about what the reviewer saw but first I want to show you what I saw and heard (something that is the miracle of the web that we can not do in print) so I am posting the selections the Kennedy Center put on line. Watch and Listen WNO Commentary: Moby Dick 1 of 7: Introduction and Prelude: Before dawn, on the deck of the Pequod (audio onl...
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