But just as Ahab obsesses over Moby-Dick, this “Moby-Dick” obsesses over Ahab, and the resulting opera is somehow both over-reduced and overproduced — a glimmering surface that betrays the ...

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

Ahab, who has lost a leg in a prior encounter with Moby-Dick, has to hobble on a wooden prosthesis. And Greenhorn—finally named Ishmael—ends the opera grabbing onto a whale hook from a passing ...

And it was their relentless, questing pursuit of excellence which inspired their finest artistic achievement. “Leviathan, the band’s second long-player, stands as both a conceptual piece themed around ...

The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville classic, and Beethoven’s tale of a political prisoner and his wife featuring the ...

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

Ahab, who has lost a leg in a prior encounter with Moby-Dick, has to hobble on a wooden prosthesis. And Greenhorn — finally named Ishmael — ends the opera grabbing onto a whale hook from a ...

Also: the psychodramas of Father John Misty, a humble “Henry IV,” the return of the Flamenco Festival, and more.

But just as Ahab obsesses over Moby-Dick, this “Moby-Dick” obsesses over Ahab, and the resulting opera is somehow both over-reduced and overproduced — a glimmering surface that betrays the ...