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Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's grand opera "Moby-Dick" was a
stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas
Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of
the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can
experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was
created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team
and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the
process of being born. Interviews with the principal singers and
the production staff follow the five-week rehearsal period into the
world premiere production, each step of the way illustrated by more
than two hundred color photographs by Karen Almond.Opera fans,
lovers of "Moby-Dick," and students of American and global culture
will welcome this book as a highly readable and visually
enthralling account of the creation of a remarkable new opera that
does full justice to its celebrated literary source. Just as Heggie
and Scheer's opera is enjoyed by operagoers with no direct
knowledge of "Moby-Dick," so will this book be enjoyed by opera
fans unaware of Melville and by Melville fans unaware of opera.
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