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Review: A ‘Moby-Dick’ Opera at the Met Cuts the Blubber

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Jake Heggie’s Adaptation of ‘Moby Dick’ Comes to the Metropolitan Opera

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.

By Wendy S. Walters

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The Met Opera Announces Its 2025-26 Season

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes six new productions and modern works by Mason Bates, Kaija Saariaho and Gabriela Lena Frank.

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Why Is an Entire Age of American Opera Missing at the Met?

A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with its midcentury peers.

By Joshua Barone