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Program

Jake Heggie, Moby Dick

I: "The Pequod"

I: "Fune ala"

I: "All hands!"

I: "You. Greenhorn. With me"

I: "I leave a white and turbid wake"

Interlude: The Pequod sails at night

I: "Well Stubb, wise Stubb"

I: "We did our best to save him"

I: "Captain Ahab? I must speak with you"

II: One year later

II: " Rolling white caps"

II: "Something change. Here in heart"

II: "Light thou leapest out of darkness"

Interlude: The next morning

II: "Captain Ahab!"

II: "Human madness is a most cunning and feline thing"

II: "Ah, Starbuck. It is a mild, mild wind"

II: "There! There! She blows!"

II: "Days later. Fune ala"

Heggie's Moby Dick

Name: Heggie's Moby Dick
Uploaded: 2016-06-30T17:40:02Z
Duration: 2 h 22 min 27 s
Description: Leonard Foglia (stage director), Patrick Summers (conductor) – With Jay Hunter Morris (Captain Ahab) – San Francisco Opera

Leonard Foglia (stage director), Patrick Summers (conductor) – With Jay Hunter Morris (Captain Ahab) – San Francisco Opera

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Cast

Patrick Summers — Music director

Leonard Foglia — Stage director

Keturah Stickann — Choreographer

Robert Brill — Set designer

Jane Greenwood — Costume designer

Don Holder — Lighting

Gavan Swift — Lighting

Program notes

Herman Melville’s epic tale of a fierce, obsessive whaling-boat captain who descends into madness and puts his crew in mortal danger is brought to the stage in this thrilling production from San Francisco Opera.

Based on Herman Melville’s classic novel, composer Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick is an opera in two acts. Set in 1820, it tells the story of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, whose leg was taken by a white whale called Moby Dick. The captain is obsessed with finding and destroying the whale at all costs. Only Starbuck, the ship’s first mate, sees the deadly implications of the captain’s obsession.

Moby Dick was commissioned by the Dallas Opera (in collaboration with the San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, State Opera of South Australia and Calgary Opera) to commemorate its inaugural season in the Winspear Opera House in 2010.