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  • Littlejohn, David

    The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition, 11/2012
    Newspaper Article

    ...the powerful if conventional score conveys the individual human natures and relationships of 10 characters (and serves a mighty male chorus of sailors), as well as the epic dimensions of the surrounding ocean and Captain Ahab's manic obsession with killing the never-seen white whale. ...I found myself preferring the opera to the novel. *** Even at age 28--he was to die almost six years later--Vincenzo Bellini could write genuinely moving bel canto music for the female voice.