Review: Mo. Mechavich triumphs in Moby Dick with Calgary Opera

 

The orchestra, crisply led by Joseph Mechavich, provides all the sounds of the sea, idiomatically rendering the often movie-like sound-scape into sound. This element is so pronounced that one wonders if the score is conceived as much as a cinematic sound-scape as a conventional operatic score.

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Under conductor Joseph Mechavich, the Calgary Philharmonic played Heggie’s music supportively, and the 37-voice men’s chorus filled the stage with yeoman service.

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