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Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick : a grand opera for the 21st century / by Robert K. Wallace ; featuring libretto by Gene Scheer ; photographs by Karen Almond.
- Title
- Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick : a grand opera for the 21st century / by Robert K. Wallace ; featuring libretto by Gene Scheer ; photographs by Karen Almond.
- Author
- Wallace, Robert K., 1944-
- Publication
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2013.
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- Description
- 224 p. : ill.; 22 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- "Book describes the world premiere of the American opera based on Melville's novel Moby-Dick, with the same name. Wallace describes the creative process of writing the music and libretto, the rehearsals and stage design, and the opening night in Dallas in May 2010."--ECIP Data View, Summary.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-219) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue : setting the stage -- Creative voyage, 2005/2010 -- Libretto by Gene Scheer : Moby-Dick, an opera in two acts -- Rehearsing a world premiere, March/April 2010 -- Moby-Dick on the opera stage -- Act 1 -- Act 2 -- Bows, backstage, and bios -- Epilogue : sailing on.
- ISBN
- 9781574415070 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781574415209 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2012042476
- OCLC
- 817721719
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library