After 15 years of sailing from house to house, the Pequod has finally floated into the Met, its splintering wood, freezing iron, and sodden ropes transfigured into digital drawing. Moby-Dick, an opera ...

MOBY-DICK--Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession and man-versus-nature, succinctly adapted by composer Jake Heggie with ...

John Irving’s recommended books show his love for classic literature, especially stories about destiny, right and wrong, deep ...

Green and Costello were in full voice, the orchestra had a new level of energy. The climax was like the slow eruption of a ...

Jake Heggie has been prominent at the Met of late. His Dead Man Walking opened the 2023–24 season. Moby-Dick premiered in ...

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.