I am at the airport in Adelaide waiting for my flight to Sydney, and picked up copies of the first newspaper reviews for MOBY-DICK. The two critics I saw both raved about Jake Heggie’s music, the production and Jay Hunter Morris’s performance as “Captain Ahab.” Needless to say, I am delighted. I saw Jay this [...]
What an accolade from Adelaide! Read more of this interview in “The Adelaide Review” with Timothy Sexton, the new head of State Opera of South Australia, where Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Moby-Dick” is being revived a year after bringing the house down, here in Dallas. UPDATE: Check out this dress rehearsal footage in a [...]
What an accolade from Adelaide! Read more of this interview in “The Adelaide Review” with Timothy Sexton, the new head of State Opera of South Australia, where Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Moby-Dick” is being revived a year after bringing the house down, here in Dallas. UPDATE: Check out this dress rehearsal footage in a [...]
I am in Adelaide, and last night was the triumphant Australian premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s MOBY-DICK at the State Opera of South Australia. The reviews aren’t out yet, but if the audience response is any indication, the production will be as big a hit here as it was in Dallas. It is [...]
From Jay Hunter Morris, about to embark on a voyage through the South Seas as Captain of the Pequod. The quote: “It’s going to outlive us all.” The topic? Something tells me you can guess, even without this link. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media & PR
Only nineteen singers today, and only three who “crashed and burned.”. The majority of the rest of them sang decent, but unexceptional auditions, but there were a few who really impressed me for various reasons. One was an American baritone named Randal Turner who started off with Starbuck’s aria from the end of Act I [...]
June 18 Lunch yesterday with composer Jake Heggie to discuss a possible future project. I will see him again in August in Adelaide for the Australian premiere of MOBY-DICK. Last night was SIEGFRIED, the third installment of Francesca Zambello’s extraordinary production of Wagner’s RING here in San Francisco. This is perhaps the most difficult of [...]
Do you remember what you were doing a year ago? We certainly do! On April 30, 2010, the Dallas Opera premiered Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s revolutionary MOBY-DICK on the magnificent stage of the Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The critically acclaimed drama was “a whale of a hit” according to [...]
The list from Classical Music Critic Joshua Kosman for the “San Francisco Chronicle” is in. I’m happy to report the Dallas Opera’s world premiere of “Moby-Dick” made the grade. Read it all here. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media and PR
The list from Classical Music Critic Joshua Kosman for the “San Francisco Chronicle” is in. I’m happy to report the Dallas Opera’s world premiere of “Moby-Dick” made the grade. Read it all here. Suzanne Calvin, Manager/Director Media and PR
