The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick ...

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. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used ...

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. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used ...

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Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon’s 2004 heavy metal classic Leviathan and, more recently, composer Jake Heggie’s ...

It’s hard to do something new and exciting with a piece of writing as legendary as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But director Ron Howard undoubtedly pulled it off with In the Heart of the Sea ...

than in New Bedford,” Herman Melville wrote in his 1851 sea odyssey, “Moby-Dick.” The novelist wasn’t wrong. Mansions from Melville’s era and even older homes still stand in New Bedford ...