New York Classical Review

Heggie’s Moby-Dick is a Critic’s Choice for 2024-25 Season
September 2024

This is a good season for American opera at the Met, with not one but two new productions. While John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra will likely be more prominent, this staging of Jake Heggie’s 2010 opera promises the ambition and the depths that can come from transforming one of the greatest works in American literature to the music stage. The all-star cast features tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ahab, tenor Stephen Costello as Greenhorn (the opera’s Ishmael stand-in), baritone Peter Mattei as Starbuck, and soprano Janai Brugger as Pip.