Set designer Robert Brill highlights preparations for 'Moby-Dick' opera

How do you stage an opera that takes place entirely on board a ship, with a huge cast and chorus, without making the audience feel as claustrophobic as a crew stuck for months on an overlong journey? The answer, in "Moby-Dick," is: with computer projections, supernumeraries, graphics and a set so huge it almost didn't fit into many of the theaters that co-produced it. "There were times we felt this was almost an impossible task," says Robert Brill, the set designer, who is currently preparing to...