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Category: Moby-Dick
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Jay Hunter Morris (pictured left, photograph by Photografeo Pty Ltd.) will replace Ben Heppner as Captain Ahab in San Francisco Opera's Moby-Dick, which opens on October 10, 2012. Originally scheduled to sing the last three performances, Morris will now sing all eight. Heppner has withdrawn from the production for personal reasons. Moby-Dick at San Francisco…
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Jay Hunter Morris (pictured left in the State Opera of South Australia's production of Moby-Dick) will replace Ben Heppner as Captain Ahab in the San Diego Opera's Moby-Dick on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Heppner is ill. Morris had been originally scheduled for the San Diego performances, but withdrew to sing Siegfried in the Metropolitan Opera's…
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* Notes * The West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie‘s Moby-Dick (Act I pictured left, photograph by Ken Howard) was given by San Diego Opera last night. This production was first seen two years ago at Dallas Opera, and has also had runs at the State Opera of South Australia in Adelaide and Calgary Opera. The…
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Jay Hunter Morris (pictured left in the title role of Siegfried at the Metropolitan Opera, photograph by Ken Howard) will replace Gary Lehman as Siegfried in the Metropolitan Opera's new Götterdämmerung, which opens January 27, 2012. Lehman has withdrawn due to a viral infection. Morris himself has withdrawn from performances of Moby Dick at San…
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Production Web Site At Dallas Opera: AP | The Dallas Morning News | D | Out West Arts | Washington Post | New York Times | San Francisco Chronicle | The Wall Street Journal | Financial Times | NPR
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Robert Brill will replace Michael Yeargan as the scenic designer for Moby-Dick, which opens in Dallas on April 30, 2010. Dallas Opera | Robert Brill Biography
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Jake Heggie's Moby Dick is now a co-commission of Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Calgary Opera, and the State Opera of South Australia. Official Site | Press Release [PDF]
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"You know, the thing that's really remarkable about that book for the time period in which it was written is the improvisational, free-flowing nature of it. He goes from straight prose to something like love poetry to setting up scenes as though this were a play–and then, back again!" I particularly like that this interview…
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November 14-22 2008: Le Nozze Di FigaroDecember 5-13 2008: Die FledermausJanuary 23-21 2009: Roberto DevereuxFebruary 13-21 2009: La BohèmeMarch 6-14 2009: L'Italiana in Algeri James Valenti is having his Dallas Opera debut as Rodolfo. William Burden is singing Lindoro in L'Italiana in Algeri, in the production San Francisco Opera audiences saw in 2005, directed by…
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