Feature Article: Met Premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick

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Following his Opening Night debut last season with Dead Man Walking, composer Jake Heggie returns to the Met on March 3 for the company premiere of Moby-Dick, his grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s heaven-storming classic. With a libretto by Gene Scheer and an enveloping staging by Leonard Foglia, Heggie’s opera welcomes audiences aboard the Pequod to experience literature’s immortal search for the white whale—and for answers to life’s deepest questions.

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Feature Article: Met Premiere of John Adams's El Niño

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On April 23, eminent American composer John Adams returns to the Met for the company premiere of El Niño, his dramatic reimagining of the Nativity story. The vibrant new production marks the Met debut of Lileana Blain-Cruz, one of the theater world’s most daring young directors, and also sets the stage for the debuts of three fierce champions of new music: distinguished maestro Marin Alsop on the podium and soprano Julia Bullock (pictured above) and bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who join mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges to form a powerful trio of next-generation stars.

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