Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera. By Wendy S. Walters When ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie's "Moby-Dick" — the composer's 2010 ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

In an early scene from "Moby-Dick," the crew of the whaling vessel The Pequod get to know their skipper. His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale ...

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When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera A cast of standouts comes together on the decks of the Pequod, with tenor Brandon Jovanovich starring as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, ...

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NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 novel. And to get ...

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