“A GREAT AMERICAN OPERA” Opera Now Magazine
“A TRIUMPH”The Dallas Morning News
“AN UNDENIABLE SUCCESS” The New York Times
“THE HIT OF THE SEASON” The Washington Post
“A MASSIVE ARTISTIC ACCOMPLISHMENT” WFAA-TV
Moby-Dick is an opera in two acts by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, based on the novel by Herman Melville. Commissioned by The Dallas Opera with San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Calgary Opera and the State Opera of South Australia, Moby-Dick opened to extraordinary international acclaim on April 30, 2010 at the Margot & Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas.
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION TEAM
| Conductor | Patrick Summers |
| Director & Dramaturg | Leonard Foglia |
| Set Design | Robert Brill |
| Lighting | Donald Holder |
| Costumes | Jane Greenwood |
| Projections & Film | Elaine McCarthy |
| Musical Preparation | Laurie Rogers, Michael Heaston, Janice Fehlauer |
| Chorus Conductor | Alexander Ro |
ORIGINAL CAST
| Ahab | Ben Heppner |
| Greenhorn | Stephen Costello |
| Starbuck | Morgan Smith |
| Queequeg | Jonathan Lemalu |
| Pip | Talise Trevigne |
| Stubb | Robert Orth |
| Flask | Matthew O’Neill |
| Gardiner | Jonathan Beyer |
The Dallas Opera Orchestra and Men of the Chorus
ORCHESTRATION
3 flutes (one doubles piccolo)
3 oboes (one doubles English Horn)
3 clarinets (one doubles bass clarinet)
3 bassoons (one doubles contrabassoon)
4 horns in F
3 trumpets in C
2 trombones
bass trombone
timpani
2 percussion
harp
strings
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
A list of companies who have performed or scheduled future performances of the opera follows:
- The Dallas Opera (April 2010)
- State Opera of South Australia (Aug./Sept. 2011)
- Calgary Opera (Jan. 2012)
- San Diego Opera (Feb. 2012)
- San Francisco Opera (Oct. 2012)
- Washington National Opera (Feb.-March 2014)
- Los Angeles Opera (Oct.-Nov. 2015)
- The Dallas Opera (Nov. 2016)
- Utah Opera (Jan. 2018)
- Pittsburgh Opera (March 2018)
