Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick: A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century

Published: April, 2013  Pages: 240  Features: 230 color photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the process of being born. Interviews with the principal singers and the production staff follow the five-week rehearsal period into the world premiere production, each step of the way illustrated by more than two hundred color photographs by Karen Almond. more... about Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick: A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century