The Brooklyn Academy of Music has never been conventional, and the same can be said of its much-anticipated, always ...

In this rock-musical Melville adaptation at BAM, the late avant-gardist braves forbidden seas and barbarous coasts.

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I was overly aware of my response the night I saw Moby-Dick at the Met. I don’t know the first thing about opera and, more worryingly, I’ve become known to friends as a person who won’t stop talking ...

While most Princetonians relax over Fall Break, Peter Westergaard, an emeritus music professor, will oversee the premiere of "Moby Dick: Scenes from an Imaginary Opera." He began working on the opera, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...