San Francisco Opera is releasing an excellent video version of Jake Heggie's opera on DVD today, and on Friday, PBS' Great Performances will telecast the opera nationwide. Locally, KQED-TV will relegate the telecast to the usual pre-dawn viewer Siberia a couple of times, but makes an exception of joining the rest of the country on Friday:
Moby Dick from San Francisco Opera (#3810) Duration: 2:26:46 SRND51 TVPG One of the nation's leading opera companies, San Francisco Opera has been the site for many memorable Great Performances productions. In October 2012, GP partnered with SFO once again to record composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer's acclaimed adaptation of the classic Herman Melville novel Moby Dick. Jay Hunter Morris stars as the obsessive Captain Ahab.KQED 9: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9 p.m.
KQED 9: Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3 a.m. [!]
KQED Life: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7 p.m.
KQED Life: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1 a.m.