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The heart of the sea: Jake Heggie's masterful Moby-Dick at LA Opera

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“a journey of discovery for artists and audience alike”
Reviewed at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles on 7 November 2015
Heggie, Moby Dick
LA Opera
James Conlon, Conductor
Leonard Foglia, Director
Robert Brill, Set Designer
Jane Greenwood, Costume Designer
Jay Hunter Morris, Captain Ahab
Joshua Guerrero, Greenhorn
Morgan Smith, Starbuck
Musa Ngqungwana, Queequeg
Jacqueline Echols, Pip
Matthew O'Neill, Flask
Malcolm MacKenzie, Stubb
Nicholas Brownlee, Captain Gardiner
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***11
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****1
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*1111
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