The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with Jake Heggie's adaptation of Herman Melville’s epic "Moby-Dick."
Tenor Brandon Jovanovich stars as Captain Ahab with conductor Karen Kamensek leading the Met Opera orchestra and chorus.
From the Met: "Herman Melville’s famously sprawling, richly meditative Moby-Dick is a work about nearly everything. In translating the grandiose source material for the stage, composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer distilled the story to its core elements, while nonetheless retaining the novel’s speculative allegory alongside its gritty realism.
"The result is an epic, thrilling musical drama exploring the cycle of life, death, and rebirth."
Read the synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera or click below to watch the trailer.
Composer: Jake Heggie
Libretto: Gene Scheer
Based on the book by Herman Melville
CAST
Queequeg: Ryan Speedo Green
Greenhorn (Ishmael): Stephen Costello
Flask: William Burden
Starbuck: Peter Mattei
Stubb: Malcolm MacKenzie
Pip: Janai Brugger
Captain Ahab Brandon Jovanovich
Nantucket sailor: Remy Martin
Tashtego: Steven Myles
Daggoo: Jarrod Lee
Spanish sailor: Jonathan Scott
Gardiner: Brian Major
