I was overly aware of my response the night I saw Moby-Dick at the Met. I don’t know the first thing ... his cantankerous demeanor so melodramatic it makes little sense to imagine him as an ordinary ...

What happens when you gender-flip the tale of “Moby Dick”? Annette Young talks to British-Chinese author, Xiaolu Guo, who has done just that with her latest book, “Call Me Ishmaelle”.

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.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons I went to the Metropolitan Opera the other night to see the new opera, Moby-Dick ... He makes little effort to find Pip, his cabin boy temporarily lost at sea.

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 ...

It’s the menace that counts in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, now making its Met debut ... who had the best diction of the cast. As Pip, Janai Brugger finds internal logic in vocal ...

In a way, “Moby Dick” is a perfect story for our times ... but most of the time it’s lip service and little else. But the word truly applies here. That melody that people couldn’t stop humming? It’s ...

At the end of the night, the chorus and fellow cast members applauded for him robustly. Heggie’s Moby-Dick has one role for a female singer: Pip, a trouser role. Pip is a soprano. In the role last ...

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 ...

With life-size puppets and cinematic stylings, Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick is a dark and immersive ... bewildering and set pieces like those of Pip falling overboard are highly effective in ...

Joan’s mum thought her new son-in-law was little more than a philanderer ... playing cabin boy Pip in Orson Welles’s production of Moby Dick in 1955. Her first marriage fell apart the ...

I just finished *** 25 hour Moby Dick marathon with my friends. It was one of the craziest things I've ever done in my life. That's Adam Aleksik, *** linguist and popular content creator who goes ...