With its themes of insanity, obsession, brotherhood, loss, capitalism, freedom " to name a few " Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered one of the great works of American literature. Epic stories naturally lend themselves to the heightened milieu of opera. What Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer's opera lacks musically is more than compensated
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:34PM on November 10, 2015