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

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 ...

His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale that took part of Ahab’s leg on a previous voyage. It’s the Metropolitan Opera premiere of the 2010 ...

Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims in an ocean chock-full of dangers such as pollution, shipping, oil ...

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

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 ...

Scheer’s libretto reduces the novel down to the central plot of Ahab chasing the whale, reminiscent of John Huston’s 1956 ...

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

“With Clutch frontman Neil Fallon supplying the voice of obsessive whale hunter Captain Ahab, opening track Blood And Thunder instantly sinks a harpoon into the listener, with a fabulously ...