Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.

The Metropolitan Opera ended its annual winter hiatus with two productions that chronicle their protagonists’ dangerous, ...

And it was their relentless, questing pursuit of excellence which inspired their finest artistic achievement. “Leviathan, the ...

The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville ...

The title role in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab’s legs—and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped ...

"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

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This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the ...

The work, which had its premiere in Dallas in 2010, is set in the nautical world of the whaling ship, Pequod, and tells the tale about the obsession of its Captain Ahab to destroy the great white ...

“So he’s either going to die at sea or figure out who he is.” In addition to Costello, the Met cast includes tenor Brandon Jovanovich as the vengeance-obsessed Captain Ahab. Pip, his cabin boy, is ...