It's the MET premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby Dick, Sat 3/29 @ 1pm (March MET listings)

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Published March 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM EST

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.

Projected visual stage representation of three boats on water, with men in each boat

3/1 Bizet: Carmen (archival)
CAST:
Elīna Garanča (Carmen)
Roberto Alagna (Don Jose)
Barbara Frittoli (Micaela)
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo)

3/8 Puccini: La Bohème (live)
CAST:
Kristina Mkhitaryan (Mimì)
Joseph Calleja (Rodolfo)
Brittany Renee (Musetta)
Luca Micheletti (Marcello)
Nicolas Testé (Colline)
Gihoon Kim (Schaunard)
Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

3/15 Beethoven: Fidelio (Live in HD)
CAST:
Lise Davidsen (Leonore)
David Butt Philip (Florestan)
René Pape (Rocco)
Tomasz Konieczny (Don Pizarro)
Ying Fang (Marzelline)
Magnus Dietrich (Jaquino)
Stephen Milling (Don Fernando)

3/22 DOUBLE BILL: Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortilèges
Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias (archive from Feb 1981)
CAST:
Hilda Harris (Child)
Ruth Welting (Fire)
Gail Robinson (Princess)
Catherine Malfitano (Thérèse, Fortuneteller)
David Holloway (Husband)

3/29 Jake Heggie: Moby Dick (Live Met Premiere)
CAST:
Brandon Jovanovich (Captain Ahab)
Stephen Costello (Greenhorn)
Peter Mattei (Starbuck)
Ryan Speedo Green (Queequeg)
Janai Brugger (Pip)
Malcolm MacKenzie (Stubb)
William Burden (Flask)