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 ... Captain Ahab. Pip, his cabin boy, is ...

Walters When “Moby-Dick” opens at the Metropolitan Opera ... in his interactions with Pip, a 14-year-old cabin boy. In the opera, Pip’s story serves as the turning point that reveals Ahab ...

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 ...

With no land in sight, there’s little ... with “Moby-Dick” is its wearisome lack of vocal variety and color (especially compared with the orchestra). Apart from Brugger’s Pip — an ...

A crucial decision by the opera’s creators—one which ultimately lessens Moby-Dick’s impact—has been ... inner lives of Greenhorn and Queequeg, Pip and Starbuck than Ahab.