Photos: L.A. Opera presents seaworthy ‘Moby Dick’

Jacqueline Echols as Pip in Los Angeles Opera’s “Moby Dick” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Musa Ngqungwana as Queequeg and Jacqueline Echols as Pip in the dress rehearsal of “Moby Dick.” Los Angeles Opera is staging Jake Heggie’s Melville opera.

The cast in a fight scene in the dress rehearsal of “Moby Dick.”

Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab, center in black, and the cast of “Moby Dick” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Joshua Guerrero as Greenhorn in “Moby Dick.”

Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab, left, and Morgan Smith as Starbuck in “Moby Dick” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Malcolm MacKenzie as Stubb in “Moby Dick.”

Musa Ngqungwana as Queequeg in “Moby Dick.”

Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab, center in black, and “Moby Dick” cast.

Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab, center, and the cast in Jake Heggie’s Melville opera, “Moby Dick.”