February 22 – March 8, 2014
Moby-Dick, the opera by Jack Heggie based on Melville’s literary masterwork, sweeps audiences straight out to the high seas. With its massive nautical sets, dazzling visual effects and achingly beautiful score, the critically acclaimed opera has been called “sumptuous and stirring! Theatrically stunning… epic in scale” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Perhaps the most technically challenging opera Washington National Opera has ever mounted,Moby-Dick is directed by renowned American stage director Leonard Foglia (The End of the Affair, Master Class), who leads a talented all-American cast in performances conducted by Evan Rogister, a dynamic young American maestro in his Washington National Opera debut.
Performed in English with projected English titles.
